Aids vaccein?

Question

I was just thinking, Though I'm so scientist, would it be plausible for a vaccine like this: Lets say we inject someone who has AIDs with the vaccine and what the vaccine does is detect where the virus is most present, and since I believe, AIDs relys on a host cell, it the vaccine enters the host cell. Just like Protist the cell consumes the virus, enteres the bloodstream goes to the kidney and is disposed through urine.


Just wondering...I may be totally wrong..

Answer 1

I believe you are totally wrong. Though currently there are researches and clinical trials on AIDS vaccine, the way you are imagining it to be seems to be impossible. Think that a vaccine is purposely given to person to stimulate antibody production to protect from certain disease. So someone who got HIV infection won't benefit from any vaccine against it. The way you are describing demonstrates somehow some mechanism of action of drugs such as antibiotics. Vaccine has another mechanism of actions.

Answer 2

Vaccines don't work that way, but a good try. Google vaccines to see how they impart immunity. The problem with the aids virus is that it mutates so quickly, that no vaccine will (yet) work.

It is as if a persons has an aids virus that, say looked like a team of football players in a field, all having white jerseys, green pants white shoes, and green helmet. And the vaccine (the other side) was told to recognize these guys as the virus.. At halftime the guys came out reversing the positions of the colors, but still in green and white. They are still the bad guys, but before the body goes out to pick them off, it recognizes them as somehow different, so does nothing. That's what the aids virus does. Just when a vaccine comes out with that switch, halftime (theoretically, another halftime) again occur and the green and whites come out with a strip down a pant leg, and so on. The immune system is confused again,.... In the meantime all these guys with green and white multiply, and overpower the other team, the immune system..... Get the point..

Answer 3

To understand if it is possible you need to understand how Vaccines work. First off it is a prevenative measure, so more than likely this would not work with those already infected and those that have developed full blown AIDS. It could however protect the millions of others that might be at risk in the future.

Vaccines work to stimulate your immune system and combat infection diseases. Your body is constantly under attack from viruses, germs and bacteria, your immune system mounts a defense through a variety of methods. Physical methods such as skin, nasal hair, physical coughing, muscus etc. Your body also produces proteins called antibodies to fight off these foriegn objects.

Vaccines stimulate yor body's immune system. The vaccine triggers yoru immune system's infection -fighting ability and meory without exposure to the actual disease. A vaccine contains a killed or weakened form or derivate of the foreign object, this makes your body more prepared for a full fledged germ/virus or bacteria when it invades the body in real life. Vaccines are used to "boost" the immune system, thus the words booster shot.

AIDS vaccines have and are being researched already. Your concept is in simplisity a good start but there are many other factors in relevance to HIV. It isn't the same ball game as most other vaccines vs viruses. However, we need to know a great deal about HIV before it is possible such as: determining the structure, function and mechanism of action of viral genes and proteins, how they interact with host cells genes and proteins to allow viral entry and replication.

This will give us a way to approach to understanding tarmission, replication and establishment of the infection and disease progression.

Finally by doing this we can characterize all the eelments of the immune response to HIV and what roles they can play in fighting off the virus. By determining the mechanism of HIV transmittion we could find out how the body can effect and attack replication, transmission and progression. The idea is to help the body identify how to best utitilze its own immune system to perfect the way the body responses to an HIV viral infection.

We know a great dealt, but there still is a long way to go. Some hypotheize that it is next to impossible, others think we have just scratched the tip of what we truly need to know for something to work. Much of the medical community feels that a vaccine is our best approach to defeating HIV and AIDS within the world, still we are probably no closer to solving the puzzle than we were 10 years ago. We know alot more as a medical community, but havn't made any progress with "curing". The good thing is with medical advancements and advantages we have learned to help AIDS and HIV infected patients live longer, healthier and more normal lives than they once did.

Answer 4

No. A vaccine is a weakened or dead virus used to make the body produce antibodies to combat the full-fledged virus.
Injecting an HIV vaccine into someone who already has AIDS would not work.