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HIV strains delay vaccine
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Different strains of the AIDS virus coexist in people and spawn hybrids more often than scientists thought, with possible implications for designing AIDS vaccines, says a recent report.
Scientists examined genes from 114 strains of HIV-1 and found that at least 10 strains appeared to be hybrids, blending genetic material from different major subtypes of the virus.
HIV-1 is divided into eight or possibly nine subtypes, plus another much different group found in West Africa. Virtually all infections in the United States come from a single subtype. The hybrids in the study were isolated in Africa and South America.
The study raises the question of whether a vaccine that works against parental strains will also protect against their hybrid offspring, researchers said.
The work is reported, in Thursday's issue of the journal "Nature," by Paul Sharp of the University of Nottingham in England, Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and others.
While scientists had known that hybrids of HIV formed within the body's cells occasionally, the study suggests it may be happening at a much greater frequency than originally thought, said Dani Bolognesi, director of the AIDS Center at the Duke University Medical School.
The study does not explain how a person gets infected with two strains of HIV, or why the immune system's response to the first infection would not protect against the second infection. Maybe there is not enough time between infections to build immune defenses, the researchers said.
to reach full strength after an HIV-1 infection, but that it probably takes several months.
If a person did build defenses against one strain and those defenses failed to protect against a different strain, then a similar immune defense created by an AIDS vaccine could fail too, Bolognesi said.
Bolognesi said it is not clear how long it takes for the body's defenses
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it is too soon to say what the study means for AIDS vaccines.
Scientists have long suspected that a vaccine directed against one strain of HIV-1 might not work against a much different strain.
The possibility of designing a vaccine against many diverse strains becomes even more formidable if one vaccine can't be protected against closely related strains, Bolognesi said.
'Hard 40's sentence gets appeal
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A trial judge may have imposed a harsh sentence on convicted murderer Donald Ray Gideon because of inflammatory remarks by the victim's family, Gideon's lawyer said Tuesday.
The Kansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the automatic appeal of Gideon's "Hard 40" sentence for the first-degree murder in 1993 of Stephanie Schmidt, a student at Pittsburgh State University and Gideon's restaurant co-worker.
A "Hard 40" sentences requires that Gideon serves at least 40 years in prison before he is eligible for parole.
A Cherokee County judge sentenced Gideon to life in prison with the so-called "Hard 40" for murder, plus 408 months for aggravated kidnapping and 154 months each for rape and sodomy.
Gideon confessed that he choked Schmidt to death after sexually assaulting her. His crimes fueled the Legislature's 1994 death penalty and sexual predator debate, when
Kansas reinstated capital punishment after 22 years and enacted a bill to keep those convicted of sex crimes locked up longer.
Gideon's lawyer, Jessica R. Kunen,
told the court that remarks by the
victim's family to the judge who
imposed the sentence put undue
pressure on him.
Stephanie Schmidt, then 19, disappeared July 1, 1993, after she accepted a ride from Gideon as they left a bar in Frontenac. The two were co-workers at a restaurant in Pittsburg.
Gideon had been released from prison the previous November after serving 10 years for raping and sodomizing a Labette County student in 1982.
Members of Schmidt's family were in court during the appeal hearing.
John K. Bork, an assistant attorney general, told the justices that the alleged inflammatory remarks by the family were appropriate.
"I wasn't trying to inflame the judge, just let him know how I felt." Gene Schmidt, Stephanie's father, said after the hearing.
"I think victims' rights were also on trial here," Gene Schmidt said. "If this is an attempt to silence victims, we not only have the right but the obligation to speak out."
He also questioned whether the automatic appeal was necessary since Gideon had confessed his crimes.
Kunen argued that Gideon invoked his right to silence four times before eventually confessing and should have received a jury trial to consider the Hard 40 sentence. She also challenged the aggravating factors the trial court used to increase the sentence.
Of Gideon's confession, Bork said,
"There is no question that this is a freely given, voluntary confession."
The Legislature passed a strict death penalty law during the 1994 session that took effect last July 1—one year from the day that Stephanie Schmidt was killed.
He urged the court to leave Gideon's sentence as it is. The court is expected to issue its ruling April 21.
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