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Fighting the flu: The surprising power of a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis
Medical Xpress / McGill University / Nature Immunology ^ | Feb. 22, 2024 | Keila DePape / Kim A. Tran et al

Posted on 02/29/2024 9:58:34 PM PST by ConservativeMind

As Canada's flu season collides with record strep A cases and ongoing COVID-19 concerns, a new study is shedding light on our understanding of respiratory immune responses. Scholars have discovered a surprising facet about a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis, Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG).

The study uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that extends the vaccine's shield to combat influenza A virus—the most prevalent flu strain.

"The immune interactions involved here can 'train' the lungs, which are frequently exposed to infectious agents in the environment. If we can map out the protective immune pathways involved in the lungs, this will revolutionize our conceptual and clinical approaches in developing vaccines against infections, including emergent respiratory viruses," efficacy Maziar Divangahi, a pulmonary immunologist.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: flu; tbvaccine
The TB vaccine makes your body better able to fight off Type A flus through your life.

Type A flus include the worst ones, including swine and bird flus.

1 posted on 02/29/2024 9:58:34 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 02/29/2024 9:59:04 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

If I knew for certain I really would get the “old fashioned” formulation TB shot, I might consider it.

But since I can no longer trust Big Pharma, the healthcare industry, and my government....


3 posted on 02/29/2024 10:02:31 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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I agree. And who knows what’s contaminating all the medicine we’re importing from China.


4 posted on 02/29/2024 10:22:54 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Exactly. Trust of the healthcare industry went out the window in 2020 — for me, anyhow.


5 posted on 03/01/2024 3:14:24 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: ConservativeMind

Couldn’t docs use this off-label?


6 posted on 03/01/2024 10:25:24 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: ConservativeMind
Correct you are, CM. Thanks as always for posting such interesting and valuable med and health info.

BTW, I got curious as to the plural of "flu" so I just looked it up. Opinion is a bit divided, but it appears to be simply "flu" as in "colds and flu".

7 posted on 03/01/2024 1:39:44 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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