'Game changing' tuberculosis vaccine a step closer
A vaccine which could "revolutionise" tuberculosis treatment has been unveiled by researchers.
It is hoped the vaccine will provide long-term protection against the disease, which kills 1.5 million people around the world each year.
The highly contagious disease is caused by bacteria, and the current vaccine, the BCG jab, is not very effective.
However, while initial trials have proved successful, the vaccine is still a few years away from being licensed.
The team of researchers, who come from all over the world, revealed the vaccine, which is made up of proteins from bacteria which trigger an immune response, during a global summit on lung health in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Tuesday.
It has already cleared a critical phase of clinical trials and been tested on more than 3,500 adults in TB endemic regions of South Africa, Kenya and Zambia, researchers said.
Also at NYT.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @05:04PM (3 children)
That is pretty hilarious since the guy who was head of the CDC at the time (Alex Langmuir) basically said "why not vaccinate for measles? We should do it just because we can". Then he predicted measles would be eradicated by 1967. No understood why he cared, because it was a total non-issue.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 30 2019, @06:51PM (2 children)
An antivaxxer who is completely ignorant? How surprising!
It's impressive how you manage to even get the facts that are irrelevant to your argument wrong, though, so let's review.
Alex Langmuir was never in charge of the CDC. The measles vaccine was invented in 1963. [cdc.gov] The head of the CDC in 1963 was James L. Goddard, MD, MPH [cdc.gov]
Alexander Langmuir was the head of some chemical warfare agency. [wikipedia.org]
Or, y'know, the 2.6 million people who were dying globally every year. [who.int]
In 1978, CDC set a goal to eliminate measles from the United States by 1982. [cdc.gov]
Measles was declared eliminated (absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months) from the United States in 2000. [cdc.gov]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @09:13PM (1 child)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007870/ [nih.gov]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6939399 [nih.gov]
I've noticed your posts here are almost always filled with wrong stuff. You should check what you are considering a reliable source (which seems to be some kind of firehose of DNC propaganda).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @01:56PM
Looking at those posts, it seems clear that "[Langmuir] became director of the epidemiology branch of the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, a position he held for over 20 years."
Though it is true he was never CDC director, only director of epidemiology at the CDC.