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)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - April 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Test the BCG-Covid hypothesis further
Clinical trials alone can prove causation. But in a race against time, there ’s an easy way to test the hypothesis involving the anti-TB vaccine further (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 8, 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)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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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. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 4, 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)
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
BCG vaccination policies make a ten times difference in Covid-19 incidence, mortality: New study
BCG, or Bacillus Calmette-Gu érin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis and is administered at birth in countries that have historically suffered from the disease, such as India. Many rich nations, such as the US, Italy and Holland, have never had a universal BCG vaccination policy. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News 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)
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)
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)
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)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Serum Institute to test if TB vaccine VPM1002 is effective against Covid-19
Serum Institute of India, the world ’s largest vaccine manufacturer, will soon start clinical trials in the country to test if tuberculosis vaccine VPM1002 is effective as a preventive and immunity booster vaccine against Covid-19. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 24, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
South Africa: Best Paper Award for UCT TB Vaccine Research
[UCT] The International Society for Vaccines (ISV) has selected a publication in which the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Mark Hatherill, Professor Robert Wilkinson, Professor Tom Scriba, Dr Mich èle Tameris and Dr Friedrich Thienemann (Faculty of Health Sciences) played a key role, as the best paper of the year for 2019. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 24, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Need for BCG Vaccination to Prevent TB Need for BCG Vaccination to Prevent TB
TB remains a major public health issue, and BCG vaccinations are imperative to prevent the infection in high-risk areas and populations.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
100 years after development, TB vaccines vary in ability to stimulate immune components
(Boston Children's Hospital) New research from the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hospital shows that BCG vaccines for tuberculosis prevention vary widely in their ability to activate components of the immune system. These findings highlight important differences between BCG formulations and the need for a large clinical study comparing them. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Giving TB vaccine intravenously boosts efficacy
New research in macaques finds that changing the delivery method of an existing tuberculosis vaccine can drastically improve its efficacy. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tuberculosis Source Type: news
