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BCG vaccine is made from weakened tubercle bacilli. It immunizes by building up a person's resistance through a mild infection.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BCG Breakthrough | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

U.S. doctors had hesitated for 25 years to make the plunge, but last week they finally did. The U.S. Public Health Service announced that it had decided to make a big-scale test of BCG,* the anti-tuberculosis vaccine. Somewhere in the South, in a community with a high T.B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BCG Breakthrough | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

They yielded, finally, to the persuasive arguments of one of the world's great T.B. experts: Denmark's Dr. Johannes Holm. Dr. Holm is so convinced of BCG's worth that during the war he took the risk of smuggling the vaccine to Danish prisoners in German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BCG Breakthrough | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

For the big experiment, PHS will choose not only a community with a high T.B. deathrate, but one with few T.B. hospital beds. Among the chief guinea pigs: nurses and other hospital workers constantly exposed to T.B. infection. The vaccine, barred from commercial manufacture, will be produced in PHS'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BCG Breakthrough | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

* For "Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin," the two French scientists who developed the vaccine in cattle and first used it on human patients in 1921.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BCG Breakthrough | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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