Luc Montagnier

Scientist

1932-08-18

Quotes by Luc Montagnier

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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• What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

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