A healthy 30-year-old woman in Ireland was mistakenly injected with a BCG vaccine instead of an MMR shot, causing a severe TB infection. The error went unnoticed initially, resulting in the bacteria ...

There is uniform agreement that serious manifestations of tuberculosis like tuberculous meningitis are less common among children who received BCG vaccination. However, a vaccine obtained by ...

Known as the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, it's typically given to babies and young children to protect them against getting TB. It involves injecting a weakened form of Mycobacterium ...

The vaccine fell out of favor after the Lübeck disaster in 1930 in which 251 children received three doses of oral BCG that were contaminated with the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Kibuchi however faults the government for inconsistency in the supply of BCG vaccines that prevent TB in children. Last year, the country reported stock out of the vaccine. Prof. Nduati is calling ...

Jane Akinyi (right) holding her baby while a medic adminster a Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine(BCG) vaccine at Forest Dispensary in Nakuru on January 28,2019.Most of the hospitals in the ...

BCG vaccination, which is easy to deliver and ... serious adverse events when given to immunocompromised HIV-infected children. There is less information for adults, probably because BCG is ...

Ranchi: From birth until the age of six, children are supposed to receive nearly two dozen types of vaccines under the ...

BCG, or the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine, elicits a multipronged immune response that effectively fends off tuberculosis in children in developing countries, where the disease is still common. But ...