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Nineteen states have already established flu advisory councils; the Red Cross is advertising home nursing courses especially for the feared onslaught; confused priority and quota systems for vaccine distribution are being mulled over by local and national health authorities; and a small vaccine black market is in operation.
The question of whether vaccination against tuberculosis should be extended in the U.S., long moot because of doctors' skepticism about the vaccine, is up for searching reexamination. Columbia University's Dr. H. McLeod Riggins declares that the U.S. has failed to put into full use "a scientifically proved...
The Drawbacks. A second strong plea for the vaccine is.made in BCG Vaccination Against Tuberculosis (Little, Brown; $7.50) by the University of Illinois' Dr. Sol Rosenthal. With the help of the Pasteur Institute's famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments...
U.S. objections to BCG are based on doubts of its safety and effectiveness, plus the complaint that it invalidates the tuberculin skin test.* Dr. Carroll Palmer of the U.S. Public Health Service found that among 50,000 young people in Puerto Rico, the vaccine cut TB by only 33%.
The Advantages. Advocates of BCG argue that even a small contribution toward reducing TB is worthwhile, point out that the vaccine was shown in Britain to be 80% effective in cutting down TB among exposed adolescents, a rate comparable to that of most other vaccines now in general use. They...