WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2006--Aphios Corporation today announced that it has been awarded United States Patent No. 7,033,813 for vaccines for AIDS, influenza and other infectious diseases. Vaccination is the most cost effective tool for the control and prevention of infectious diseases. This could be true for HIV/AIDS that is running rampant throughout the world infecting more than 40 million people and killing 20 million worldwide. Unfortunately, most attempts to develop a safe and effective HIV/AIDS vaccine over the last two decades have failed.
