tuberculosis

There's some interesting correlations between the use of the Calmette-Guerin inoculation against tuberculosis (BCG) and improved survival rates amongst those infected with Covid-19. This might explain the strikingly different death rates among culturally and socially similar countries such as...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16592199 This is kind of scary: On an evolutionary scale, we've had a relatively small amount of time to enjoy the ascendancy of our drugs against such diseases. Maybe our unique ability to evolve our technology without waiting for the slow (due to our longer...

Another Big Pharma Conspiracy rant, I'm afraid. The reason I've posted it here and not in the Conspiracy forum is becuase I'm interested in one specific point: I know about antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis bacilli; but I just don't believe they've really stopped trying to produce new...

A couple years ago ago, CNN's Lou Dobbs show claimed unscreened illegal immigration was responsible for a rise of leprosy in the United States, 7,000 cases over the previous three years. He stood by this claim recently on a 60 Minutes interview. Questioned by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl...

I was wondering did anyone else not have their TB jab? Well I have never been abroad and never had TB infection if I did then I would be suriously ill as a child. Well everyone in my school in my year had the jab except one other person. My brother and my three sisters each had to have the TB...