Luc Montagnier Quotes

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

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

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

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

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

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.