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BCG Vaccine for Health Care Workers as Defense Against SARS-COV2
Conditions: Coronavirus; Coronavirus Infection; Coronavirus Sars-Associated as Cause of Disease Classified Elsewhere; Coronavirus as the Cause of Diseases Classified Elsewhere Interventions: Biological: BCG Vaccine; Biological: Placebo Vaccine Sponsors: Andrew Dinardo; Radbound University Medical Center; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Harvard University Not yet recruiting
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov - April 16, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: clinical trials
Coronavirus Fight: A 100-Year-Old Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Help Combat COVID-19
(CNN) — As researchers scramble to find new drugs and vaccines for the coronavirus, a vaccine that is more than a century old has piqued researchers’ interests. The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine — which was first developed to fight off tuberculosis — is being studied in clinical trials around the world as a way to fight the novel coronavirus.
Tuberculosis and COVID-19 infection are two very different diseases — TB is caused by a type of bacteria while COVID-19 is caused by a virus, for starters. But the BCG vaccine might help people build immune responses to things other than TB, causing &#...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - April 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local CNN Coronavirus Health News Massachusetts General Hospital Source Type: news
Studies using TB vaccine against COVID-19 underway, but shot months away
Researchers this week began experimenting with use of a tuberculosis vaccine in the fight against COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, but a viable shot is still likely months away.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - April 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coronavirus death rate lower in countries using old BCG vaccine
In the UK, all schoolchildren between ten and 14 were injected with the vaccine between 1953 and 2005 but only the most at-risk now get the jab.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can an Old Vaccine Stop the New Coronavirus?
A tuberculosis vaccine invented a century ago is cheap and safe, and seems to bolster the body ’s immune system.
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infant Mortality Immune System Tuberculosis Clinical Trials Third World and Developing Countries Source Type: news
Explainer: How an old tuberculosis vaccine might help fight the new coronavirus
There is no vaccine against the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, that is spreading rapidly around the world. But scientists in several countries are testing a century-old tuberculosis (TB) vaccine to see if it might boost the immune system to reduce respiratory symptoms in people who get new coronavirus infections.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Nations with mandatory TB vaccines show fewer coronavirus deaths: Study
With nearly 900,000 cases and 45,000 deaths, the world is struggling to control Covid-19.
Source: The Economic Times - April 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Vaccine From The 1920s Is Now Being Tested For Use Against The Coronavirus Pandemic
Researchers in a handful of countries are testing a century-old tuberculosis vaccine to see if it can give a boost to the immune system to help it fight off the novel coronavirus now causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 31, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Eric Mack, Contributor Source Type: news
Tuberculosis vaccine could be used to prevent the spread of coronavirus
The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is used to fend off tuberculosis (TB) but it has long been known to have other health benefits and is now being trialled in Australia.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
