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Every seven seconds, doctors estimate, someone somewhere in the world dies of tuberculosis. Because TB is a disease that thrives on poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition and ignorance, its prevention is largely a sociological problem. Doctors, however, have long searched in vain for a medical weapon that would work against TB with...
Divided Credit. In Denmark, where BCG has been widely used, the tuberculosis death rate has been reduced over the last two decades from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where...
In Britain, vaccination with BCG has been adopted by the Ministry of Health as an official preventive measure against TB. A major fear among many U.S. doctors, who have thus far not been able to make up their minds about it, is that universal acceptance of the vaccine might lead...
At the Rancho Mil Condones in the state of Mexico, a sweating vaquero roped a bawling steer out of a herd and tethered it to a fence post. While a U.S. livestock inspector examined the beast's mouth, a Mexican technician shaved a spot on its hide, injected 2...
* The vaccine's reputation suffered a serious setback in Lübeck, Germany, in 1930, when 72 of 251 infants died after being vaccinated with what was thought to be BCG. Investigation proved that the children had been vaccinated with another culture, but the outcry was so great throughout...