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Germany testing tuberculosis drug as coronvirus treatment
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 4/8/2018 | Staff

Posted on 04/08/2020 5:30:42 PM PDT by KC Burke

A microbiologist in Germany believes that the use of an updated version of a 100-year-old Tuberculosis vaccine may work as an intermediate treatment for Covid-19. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chinavirusdrugs; corona; tbdrug; tbvaccine
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Video at link.

The news is now full of the recognition that the Covid-19 hyas had less impact in nations where TB inoculation has been mandatory.

Portugal has fewer infections than Spain. Portugal had mandatory TB vacination.

East Germany vs West Germany.

etc.

now a number of new accounts of this issue.

Maybe it just hardens the immune system but hey... no budy wanted malaria drugws till it began to get examination

1 posted on 04/08/2020 5:30:42 PM PDT by KC Burke
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This plus HIV drug I forgot the name of, plus Malaria drug that Trump touts are being heavily considered and at times used with success. And zinc something.


2 posted on 04/08/2020 5:35:30 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: KC Burke

Another article
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/04/07/century-old-tuberculosis-vaccine-could-offer-virus-protection-mgh-doc-says/


3 posted on 04/08/2020 5:35:47 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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More Good News


4 posted on 04/08/2020 5:35:48 PM PDT by Rocko Jack
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RThird article

https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/medical/boosting-immunity-how-a-1920s-tuberculosis-vaccine-might-help-fight-coronavirus/ar-BB126gbr


5 posted on 04/08/2020 5:36:44 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Fourth:

https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/explainer-how-an-old-tuberculosis-vaccine-might-help-fight-the-new-coronavirus/ar-BB126z7V?li=BBr8Mkh


6 posted on 04/08/2020 5:38:00 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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Maybe it just hardens the immune system but hey,,,

LOL. Nobody knows how it works, but BCG is a crazy vaccine. That it protects against some other diseases (leprosy, for example) is logical, but it also works against one type of cancer.

Latest estimates from two different sources is cutting down the rate of virus infection by about 10x. (Yes, it is not absolute protection).

7 posted on 04/08/2020 5:42:44 PM PDT by mvonfr
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This coupled with the Iron-ion issues being looked at are giving us more avenues to attack.


8 posted on 04/08/2020 5:46:18 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: mvonfr

How about hyper immune gobulin?

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200327/Grifols-Announces-Formal-Collaboration-with-US-Government-to-Produce-the-First-Treatment-Specifically-Targeting-COVID-19.aspx


9 posted on 04/08/2020 5:48:13 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: mvonfr

BCG is used sometimes as a bladder cancer treatment.


10 posted on 04/08/2020 5:48:53 PM PDT by Rockingham
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They now have the virus’s RNA model in a non infectious form it appears. This allows testing:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200401/Thermo-Fisher-announces-availability-of-AcroMetrix-Coronavirus-2019-(COVID-19)-RNA-Control.aspx


11 posted on 04/08/2020 5:50:34 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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Once used a person will react to the TB test as a positive. I used BCG for tumours in horses and cows very successfully but again, cattle that had this therapy had to be marked as such because they react to the TB test as a positive. BCG worked against squamous cell carcinomas, melanomas, and sarcoid. There is only one lab making it now as Ft. Dodge sold the patent and drug to a small company in California and the price went out of this world.
12 posted on 04/08/2020 5:50:57 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: KC Burke

Interesting :D


13 posted on 04/08/2020 5:51:22 PM PDT by mvonfr
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California is fighting TB in the Imperial Valley


14 posted on 04/08/2020 5:53:23 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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I get my BCG treatment tomorrow. Interesting.


15 posted on 04/08/2020 5:56:16 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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The Russians also have a much lower case profile than other countries, same for other Former Soviet countries.


16 posted on 04/08/2020 5:56:17 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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What we have so far that seems to work, though not at all the stages of the disease and not to all the same effectiveness -

1. Remdesivir - a semi-failed drug intended to attack ebola, was an investigational drug to find out what else it might be good for before all this started. Initially used as a hail mary attempt on a couple people in the US with COVID-19, now in expanded testing and frantic usage in China.

2. The HIV drugs - ritonavir and lopinavir. Originally created to fight HIV, and still doing that today, but have been found effective in some surprising other uses in fighting Hep C and HPV (repsectively.) Initially used by a doctor who was infected and had nothing to lose, worked, now in expanded testing and usage in Asia.

3. The cocktail - hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin or now doxycycline and possibly zinc. This is what Trump has been mentioning. First used in Asia as a spitball idea, confirmed to be useful in France.


17 posted on 04/08/2020 5:56:34 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Rockingham

Yep. Get mine tomorrow.


18 posted on 04/08/2020 5:57:10 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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If this proves to be an effective drug for treatment of COVID 19 then all Pres Trump would have to say is use it, would be bans from the market in a heartbeat. The left wants as many deaths as possible in their quest for power,


19 posted on 04/08/2020 6:06:13 PM PDT by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up"can't be counted)
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3. The cocktail - hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin or now doxycycline and possibly zinc. This is what Trump has been mentioning. First used in Asia as a spitball idea, confirmed to be useful in France.

French paper has been removed by the Journal it published as incorrect.

Add Ivermectin to the list of possible meds. Google for Ivermectin coronavirus to see.

20 posted on 04/08/2020 6:07:51 PM PDT by mvonfr
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