Human AIDS Vaccine

(Beijing, China) The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has given authorization to conduct testing of a new AIDS vaccine on human beings. It's already been tested on monkeys and "no abnormal reactions occurred."

Human body test, or stage I clinical test, of the compound AIDS vaccine aims to further assess the security of the vaccine, an SFDA official said.

The government will consider whether to launch stage II and stage III tests on the basis of the result of the stage I test.

Showing a bias surely based on my unfamiliarity with the subject, I'm skeptical about being optimistic. Chinese medicine always conjures up thoughts of acupuncture, rhino horn, and black bear gall bladder, not DNA-based human immunodeficiency vaccine.