Luc Montagnier Quotes

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Thinking, Hiv, Weight

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• We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.

  Luc Montagnier

  Viruses, Hiv, Week

  Interview with Kit Melamed, maisonneuve.org. 2004.

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Support, Psychological, Function

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Vaccines, Safety, Needs

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• Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

  Luc Montagnier

  Research, Should, Application

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  People, Support, Important

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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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Important, Trying, Defense

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• 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.

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  Vaccines, People, Population

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Age, Easier

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Infection, Knows

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Ideas, Vaccines, Viruses

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Viruses, Transmission, Response

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• 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.

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  Typical, Different, Shapes

  "Did Luc Montagnier Discover HIV?". Interview with Djamel Tahi, July 1997.

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Thinking, Vaccines, Goal

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Interesting, Population, Looks

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

  Luc Montagnier

  Idaho, Experts, Ethical

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  School, Aggravation, Too Late

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• 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.

  Luc Montagnier

  Squares, Years, Two

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