Time for Change: Preventing TB Has Relied on the Same Vaccine for 100 Years – The Wire Science - The Wire Science

BCG remains the only widely available TB vaccine. This is sad.

An apparatus for BCG vaccination used in Japan and Ireland, along with ampoules of BCG and saline. Photo: Y tambe/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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