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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 23, 1990                   TAG: 9006230238
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

AIDS SHOT POSSIBLE BY MID-'90S

Large-scale testing of AIDS vaccines could begin in two years and a vaccine could be widely available by the middle of the 1990s, researchers said Friday.

At the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, the AIDS vaccine group led by Dr. Jonas Salk reported that the Salk AIDS vaccine has boosted immunity in about 60 percent of the 82 people with AIDS virus infections who have received it so far.

The results were encouraging enough for the researchers to announce that large-scale trials of the vaccine will begin in several months with the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

- Associated Press 


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