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Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine
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Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine

01/15/2021

In July 1921, a French infant became the first person to receive an experimental vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), after the mother had died from the disease. The vaccine, known as Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), is the same one still used today….

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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: Patients should follow hand hygiene, cough etiquette
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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: Patients should follow hand hygiene, cough etiquette

03/24/2020

When those with lung TB, for instance, cough, sneeze or spit, the TB germs are released into the air, which in turn, could be inhaled by another person and infect him or her. “COVID-19 is highlighting just how vulnerable people…

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A new way to give an old tuberculosis vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys
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A new way to give an old tuberculosis vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys

01/16/2020

What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people? It would help prevent the infection that kills more people every year than…

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