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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.
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...
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...
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'...
* 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.