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...study, scientists from Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Tulane University tried to infect 15 sedated monkeys with SIV, the simian cousin of the AIDS virus. To simulate oral sex, researchers dribbled an SIV solution onto the tongues of seven animals. Then, for comparison, they carefully placed SIV in the rectums of eight other monkeys. Much to their surprise, they found that it took less of the viral solution to infect a monkey orally than rectally--6,000 times less...
...sufficient to be passed on through the mouth or throat. One likely route: the tonsils, which contain large numbers of the kinds of lymph cells favored by HIV and SIV. "We're not saying that oral exposure is more dangerous than anal exposure," notes Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber. "What we're saying is that oral sex is not safe...
Telsuya Matsuguchi, a research fellow in medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Weishui Y. Weiser, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, each resigned from their positions at the University after committing the misconduct for which they were investigated...
Once Dana Farber discovered there was a problem, the Cancer Institute convened a committee to investigate Matsuguchi's actions, but subsequently referred the case to the NIH's Office of Research Integrity, Fggert said...
This makes vaccine development extremely risky. A weakened strain of SIV that protected adult monkeys, for example, looked safe until researchers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston showed that newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus...