Vaccine Development

Researchers Want to Know How Vaccines Work

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 12th, 2000

Vaccines work simply by producing antibodies, right'

Well, probably not. And this misconception coupled with basic ignorance of how they do work is stalling the urgent quest for an AIDS vaccine, claim leading HIV researchers.

They say no one has bothered to find out how highly successful vaccines like polio, measles, and hepatitis B actually protect people from disease, according to Michael Day reporting in New Scientist from a Pasteur Institute meeting in Paris, France.

"I'm amazed by the amount of basic science we don't know," Philippe Kourilsky, director of the Paris-based Pasteur Institute, told the meeting. ...

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