A recent study confirms that the 100-year-old BCG vaccine does not protect against COVID-19, challenging early assumptions ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development elicits a much more balanced and effective immune response compared to the existing vaccine used across much of the world, ...

Currently, the only approved vaccine for TB is the century-old Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, which is widely used despite its effectiveness in adults being inconsistent. The study found ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

Following the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin shortage, the first patient with bladder cancer has been dosed with recombinant ...

TB is the leading killer worldwide by a single ... The only licensed vaccine on the market—the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine—was invented more than 100 years ago and its effectiveness ...

Best known for its role in tuberculosis prevention, the BCG vaccine is based on a harmless strain of bacteria related the one that causes tuberculosis. A generic drug with over 100 years of ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads through airborne transmission and can establish persistent lung infections that lead to severe respiratory disease. The widely used Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) ...

People living with HIV are more than 14 times more likely to fall ill with TB disease than people without HIV.

A dividend from immunisation is a future free from the diseases that rob communities of health and well-being, a future free ...

TB is the leading killer worldwide by a single ... The only licensed vaccine on the market – the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine – was invented more than 100 years ago and its ...