“There’s no vaccine for TB”
“BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. “
https://www.vaccines.gov/diseases/tb/
There’s no vaccine for TB
Seems there is...
http://www.tbfacts.org/bcg-tb-vaccine/
BCG Vaccine – Current use, safety & skin test
The BCG vaccine is the only TB vaccine currently available, although there are other TB vaccines under development. Although far from perfect, the BCG vaccine is a relatively inexpensive, safe, and readily available vaccine that is still the only vaccine available for the prevention of human forms of TB.
Who is given the BCG vaccine?
A child being given the BCG vaccine in their upper right arm © AMREF Demsissew Bizuwork
A child being given the BCG vaccine in their upper right arm © AMREF Demsissew Bizuwork
The BCG vaccine is normally given to children as it has been shown to provide very good protection against the disseminated forms of TB in children, including TB meningitis. However the protection provided against pulmonary TB in adults is very variable. So the BCG vaccine is not generally given to adults.1
The BCG vaccine is one of the most widely used of all current vaccines, and overall it reaches more than 80% of all new born children and infants in countries where it is part of the national childhood immunization programme.2 The World Health Organisation (WHO) monitors the estimated coverage of the BCG vaccine in every country. 3
Not every country that could do so gives the vaccine to all children. Generally countries where there is a high level of TB use the BCG vaccine to vaccinate all children. Some countries with a low level of TB, such as the United States and England do not give all children the vaccine, but only those considered at particular risk. The United States has never vaccinated all children, but in the United Kingdom all children were given the vaccine until 2005.4
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