Word: bcg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Charge: BCG vaccine is vicious, because composed of living tuberculosis bacilli. It killed 57 infants at Lubeck, Germany, this summer...
Professor Calmette: But certain highly efficient accepted vaccines, including those for rabies and smallpox, utilize living microbes. The catastrophe at Lubeck occurred because virulent tuberculosis bacilli were mixed at Lubeck with the BCG vaccine received from Paris...