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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...
...Substance. A vaccine, labelled "BCG," obtained from special culture of the Koch bacilli, weakened subsequently by the grafting of 230 successive cultures on bovine bile. To be injected or administered through the mouth...
Results. Cows and monkeys inoculated with "BCG" remained uninfected for 18 months, 1) when left for weeks in contact with other animals strongly infected with tuberculosis, 2) when given intravenal application of virulent bacilli capable of killing an ox in two months...
...infants, born of tubercular parents 18 months ago, given three doses of "BCG" at 48-hour intervals beginning within 24 hours of birth, left with their mothers to run the risk of infection, had yet shown the slightest sign of infection...