Luc Montagnier Quotes

The Center Will Be Fully Operational In Two Years' Time, But Probably In The Middle Of The Year We Will Have A Temporary Laboratory Of 4,000 Square Feet.

We Did Not Purify... 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.

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.

Its 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.

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.

I've Participated In Meetings Where There Were Concerns By Ethical Experts. There Is No Clear Solution.

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.

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.

The Idea Of The Live-virus Vaccine Is To Produce In A Continuous Way Some Viral Antigens.

We Don't Know Why, But There Are Some Gradients Of Infection.

It's Easier To Learn Things For Life By The Age Of 12 And Not The Age Of 18. This Is Just My Guess.