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The only known and approved vaccine for TB is now 100 years old!
"In an attempt to protect the newborn [in 1921] from the disease, doctors gave him an oral dose of what was later named Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, for its developers Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. The duo had cultured M. bovis for more than a decade until it no longer caused disease in animals.
Nowadays, BCG is given to more than 100 million babies each year, primarily in the developing world, and saves tens of thousands of lives. But it provides incomplete protection, and TB remains the number one infectious killer on the planet. It is estimated to have wiped out 1 billion people in the past 200 years, including 1.4 million in 2019 alone. ...
In adolescents and adults, who together account for more than 90 percent of TB cases, tuberculosis presents as the more familiar lung infection, and for some reason, BCG is less effective at preventing this form of the disease. ..."
Nowadays, BCG is given to more than 100 million babies each year, primarily in the developing world, and saves tens of thousands of lives. But it provides incomplete protection, and TB remains the number one infectious killer on the planet. It is estimated to have wiped out 1 billion people in the past 200 years, including 1.4 million in 2019 alone. ...
In adolescents and adults, who together account for more than 90 percent of TB cases, tuberculosis presents as the more familiar lung infection, and for some reason, BCG is less effective at preventing this form of the disease. ..."
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