Luc Montagnier Quotes

Luc Montagnier — French Scientist born on August 18, 1932,

Luc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus. A long-time researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he currently works as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China... (wikipedia)

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.