Well no as you probably recieved a vaccine when you were a child, the problem is that for some reason that science hasn't yet figured out entirely (though it's probably a weird genetic thing caused by the wide variety of m. Bovis used as a vaccine and some sort of weird environmental factors) some of the TB vaccines have a low efficacy among certain human population.
Such as those in India, unfortunately.
The good news is that the genomes of all the various vaccines and for the various major TB strains have been sequenced quite recently, so we're probably looking at a 2013-14 date for the production of a universally effective TB vaccine.
My great-grandfather died of TB and its complications in 1981, in hospital, where he had spent about a year trying to get better (he was kind of old too, around 70 or 80). :/ I *so* do not look forward spreading of this one.
Hoping bacteriophage research (http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2011-news/phagehunter-lab-has-undergraduates-searching-for-tuberculosis-cure) can pull something out of the hat :-/
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Date: 2012-01-12 08:39 am (UTC)Such as those in India, unfortunately.
The good news is that the genomes of all the various vaccines and for the various major TB strains have been sequenced quite recently, so we're probably looking at a 2013-14 date for the production of a universally effective TB vaccine.
Because SCIENCE!
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Date: 2012-01-10 08:26 pm (UTC)-- Steve's hoping this one gets nipped in the bud, but fears it'll be the next c. difficile.
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:32 pm (UTC)Wait....