TB Vaccine Gets Its Groove Back
Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 22:35
in Health & Medicine
Investigators have cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries -- what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial lung infection that kills more than 1.7 million people worldwide each year. Their solution could lead to an improved TB vaccine and also may offer a novel platform for vaccines against other pathogens.