The only vaccine we have for TB right now is the BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin). If, like many people, you got a dose of this at school, you’ll most likely still have the scar to show for it.

But a bungling medic mixed up the vaccines and gave her a shot of the vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) - unwittingly infecting with her one of the world's most deadly diseases. Known as the ...

TB cases rise globally. New vaccine trials offer hope. Learn about TB's impact, risks, and a Dr. Alemnew Dagnew's fight for a cure.

Instead, the woman was injected with a vaccine for tuberculosis, the deadliest infection in the world, with an estimated 1.2 million deaths each year, resulting in a severe tuberculosis (TB ...

A tuberculosis vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), exists, but its effectiveness is extremely variable, and therefore it is not recommended for use in the United States and Europe. The World ...

It stands for Bacillus Calmette Gurrain, the strain of bovine tuberculosis used ... indication of success of BCG vaccine. It may take three to six months for the scar to form.

Their study showed the successful use of a simple new tuberculosis vaccine to help fight the most common type of bladder cancer by boosting patients' immune responses, proving the potential of ...

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...

The potential of intranasal vaccination is well known against mucosal pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which helps in the designing of new-generation antituberculous vaccines.

As the world marks World Tuberculosis Day, experts are issuing an urgent call for the development of new vaccines against Tuberculosis (TB), a disease that claimed more lives in 2023 than any ...

Experts are heralding the potential of a new vaccine, M72/AS01E, which is currently undergoing a pivotal phase 3 clinical trial, aimed at determining its efficacy in preventing TB disease.