Modern Day Plague

Gloomy news regarding the search for an AIDS vaccine. Apparently it's not only still years away, but it might not even be a reachable goal in my lifetime.

From The Independent:

Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.
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Nearly two thirds believed that an HIV vaccine will not be developed within the next 10 years and some of them said that it may take at least 20 more years of research before a vaccine can be used to protect people either from infection or the onset of Aids.

A substantial minority of the scientists admitted that an HIV vaccine may never be developed, and even those who believe that one could appear within the next 10 years added caveats saying that such a vaccine would be unlikely to work as a truly effective prophylactic against infection by the virus.

This is disheartening and discouraging news. The HIV virus has ruined so many people's lives in the past couple decades, and it looks like it will be able to wreak havoc on many more and for many years to come.

A real plague on humanity, especially for Africa, where millions have died and millions are living with the virus and little hope of survival.

I'm sure the religious bigots are happy though, since they view AIDS as God's punishment for the gays. They don't care that millions of those infected (and dead) are straight, women, and children. Most of them are black anyway, so it doesn't matter.

They probably figure God saw them as collateral for the main goal of ridding the globe from the homosexuals.