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February 1, 1988

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Flying Blind

Testing an AIDS vaccine may be harder than inventing one

By Karen Wright

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Karen Wright is an award-winning writer and editor based near Seattle. Her work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers and has been syndicated worldwide.

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This article was originally published with the title “Flying Blind” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 258 No. 2 (February 1988), p. 35
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0288-35

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