Luc Montagnier

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

“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.”

“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.”