Some hospitals have had to throw out medicines like tuberculosis vaccine and insulin for lack of diesel fuel or gasoline to run their generators.
The Food and Drug Administration today approved a novel treatment for mild bladder cancer that involves flooding the bladder with a live bacteria used in tuberculosis vaccines.
Other tuberculosis vaccines in development are:
One was tuberculosis vaccine, another was Sabin polio vaccine.
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a tuberculosis vaccine used in countries outside the United States.
To put the immune system into hyperdrive, Dr. Morton also planned to inject weakened bacteria used in the tuberculosis vaccine.
So in 1967, Dr. Morton tried the tuberculosis vaccine alone, injecting it directly into melanoma nodules on a patient's arm.
In view of these considerations, I voted for the joint motion for a resolution on the tuberculosis vaccine.
Scientists have transplanted foreign genes into the bacteria that make up tuberculosis vaccine, an important preliminary step in adapting that vaccine for use against other diseases.
A tuberculosis vaccine would prevent even more deaths.