Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
Luc Antoine Montagnieris 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 August 1932
CountryFrance
cells die directly french-scientist indirect infected main open
There are two main theories: that it kills the cells infected directly or that the cells die in an indirect way. Actually, I am open to both.
applied believe developing expensive french-scientist people sufficient treatments
We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.
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One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
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We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.
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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.
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What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
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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.
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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.
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That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
vaccines safety prevention
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
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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.
school too-late our-society
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.