Study Finds Hope for Potential HIV Vaccine

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A vaccine to help protect against HIV may be closer to reality than previously though, one study indicates.

The study, published in the journal Science, found that one potential HIV vaccine can be used to protect rhesus monkeys from the disease. Fifty percent of the monkeys given the vaccine were protected, researchers say, when exposed to the virus in a manner that infected all of the monkeys in a control group.

The Daily Mail reports that the results could prompt Johnson & Johnson to test the vaccine in humans.

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