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...Paris last week a deaf old professor with a long beard was buying newspapers, searching them anxiously for news from Germany. He was Leon Charles Albert Calmette, 68, who with Veterinary Surgeon Alphonse Guerin developed Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, commonly called BCG vaccine, for tuberculosis immunity (TIME, Aug. 4, 1930 et ante). Year and a half ago 76 infants in Lübeck died after administration of BCG. Last week three Lübeck doctors and a nurse were on trial for manslaughter and criminal negligence. Question to be answered at the trial: Could the vaccine have become virulent without outside...
...thoroughly modern laboratory of the Japanese government's hospital at Keijo (Seoul) in Chosen (Korea), Professor Kiyoshi Shiga, the hospital director and an eminent bacteriologist*, some months ago implanted leprosy bacilli in some mice. Since 1871 when Dr. G. Armauer Hansen of Norway discovered the Bacillus leprae men have been trying to grow it artificially. If the germs could be cultivated, perhaps an antileprosy serum would evolve. Some ten years ago a Russian biologist, Kadroski, announced such an artificial culture. Just before his death Dr. Moses Clegg of the Philippine Bureau of Science at Manila, announced a culture. Last...
Professor Leon Charles Albert Calmette, 67, with Veterinary C. Guerin developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, commonly called BCG vaccine. It is prepared from living tuberculosis germs taken from diseased cows. These germs are cultured for many germ generations until they become non-virulent. The discoverers believe, and famed Dr. Park of Manhattan agrees with them, that they have proved that BCG vaccine, if fed to infants the first ten days of life, immunizes them against tuberculosis. Many bacteriologists denounce BCG. They say that its live germs cause rather than prevent tuberculosis (TIME...
Concluded Professor Calmette with emotion: "Let us generally adopt this vaccine! Let it be administered to all children ! The question is whether you would prefer to permit your child to be exposed to the virulent tuberculosis bacillus, which is inescapable, and let him take a chance against it unprotected, or whether you will administer a vaccine which is absolutely harmless and will in all probability make him immune from an attack of the virulent bacillus...
...killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci of bubonic plague,* very seldom does a case now appear in the U. S. Rats, ground squirrels (the chief cause in California) and other rodents carry the germ, Bacillus pestis. Fleas bite the rats, then carry the bacilli to man's habitations, his clothes, his body. To prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal...