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To: Bon mots
I had to have the inoculation as my husbands sister had TB. As I said, if you look hard enough you can see the scar.
28 posted on 09/03/2006 12:58:41 PM PDT by AmeriBrit ( What happened to 'Able Danger'? and which Clinton has all the missing FBI files?)
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To: AmeriBrit

There is no inoculation against TB in the US. If your husband's sister had TB and you live in the states, you had a PPD test to see if you had been infected. The test provided no protection to becoming infected in the future.

The TB vaccine, BCG, is one of the world's most widely administered vaccines, but the US doesn't use it because it provides virtually zero protection other than for certain types of TB (e.g., TB meningitis) in infants and young children. No effective TB vaccine exists, although there are groups (AERAS, based in MD) working on one.

The tine test also hasn't been used in years, being replaced by the PPD. The PPD is meant to serve more as a screening tool than a diagnostic one. It doesn't differentiate between latent infection and active disease.


29 posted on 09/05/2006 11:15:35 AM PDT by pjensen86
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