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...Made from an organism found in voles (British field mice). This bacillus (Mycobacterium muris) is a close kin to the human-type tubercle bacillus, but does not cause disease in man. The question before this test was whether it could confer immunity against TB (as cowpox does against smallpox...
Among the many mysteries of tuberculosis, none is greater than the inability of doctors on opposite sides of the Atlantic to agree on the value of BCG vaccine (TIME, Dec. 25, 1950) as a TB preventive. Medical men in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, look at the reports on their BCG programs and see "proof" that the vaccine is effective in conferring immunity. Doctors in the U.S. look at the same reports (supposedly scientific, and therefore objective) and sneer: it's no good. In this crossfire the British stayed neutral for years, finally started a searching BCG test of their...
...years all participants in the test were checked with examinations and X rays. There were no deaths from TB, but 165 cases cropped up. Of these. 64 were in the negative-unvaccinated group, for an annual rate of 1.94 cases per 1,000; 13 were in the BCG group, a rate of .37 per 1,000, and seven were in the vole bacillus group, for a rate of .44. Of particular importance: not one of the TB cases in the vaccinated groups was of the especially dangerous meningeal (brain covering) or miliary (throughout the body) variety. There were 81 cases...
...check on the heartbeat of all of Taylor County (pop. 80,000). There is a long waiting list for Dr. Adamson's services, and this week he will carry his machine into the public schools. The aim: to make mass heart checkups as commonplace in U.S. cities as TB screening...
...branch of the U.N. that has really accomplished things is WHO (World Health Organization). It has successfully fought yaws in Africa, yellow fever in Latin America, leprosy all over Asia, TB in India and Europe. Last week WHO got its strongest testimonial to date: Russia, which walked out in 1949, walked back in. Typically, the Bolsheviks refused to pay $3,800,000 in back dues, offered to settle for about onefourth...