Luc Montagnier Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”