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**furious1** · 01-21-2012, 05:39 PM

The BCG vaccine doesn't really work very well. Consider the fact that Russia uses the vaccine routinely yet has the highest incidence of TB infection in Europe. I've heard that one quarter of all Russian physicians have tuberculosis.
There's a new strain of tuberculosis in India that is truly resistant to every treatment regimen, but I don't think it has spread to the US yet. India is another country that requires the BCG vaccine, but I don't know how effective their vaccination campaign is.

01-21-2012, 05:39 PM	#13
furious1 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	The BCG vaccine doesn't really work very well. Consider the fact that Russia uses the vaccine routinely yet has the highest incidence of TB infection in Europe. I've heard that one quarter of all Russian physicians have tuberculosis. There's a new strain of tuberculosis in India that is truly resistant to every treatment regimen, but I don't think it has spread to the US yet. India is another country that requires the BCG vaccine, but I don't know how effective their vaccination campaign is.
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