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Merck Plans To Test AIDS Vaccine

Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 16th, 1999

Merck & Co. Inc. scientists are making plans to begin the first human tests of two promising experimental vaccines for use against AIDS developed as part of an intense top-secret research effort, reported in the July 30, 1999, issue of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The report said the company confirmed the vaccines' existence and the company's plans to begin administering them in a small number of healthy, uninfected volunteers by the end of 1999.

Emilio Emini, Merck, told the WSJ the human tests will be undertaken to help Merck scientists determine if the vaccines can produce in people the kind of immune system reaction generated in animal...

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