Thousands of Los Angeles residents on “Skid Row” may have been exposed to a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis according to multiple sources.
The Centers for Disease Control has descended on the area in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading. Continue reading
The Centers for Disease Control have confirmed the first cases of a completely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis in South Africa. The CDC report is calling the infection “virtually untreatable.”
Tuberculosis is the second most fatal infectious disease worldwide after HIV. Continue reading
A major trial of a new vaccine to fight tuberculosis has ended in failure after researchers discovered it did not provide protection to infants exposed to the bacteria.
The trial is significant because the current vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is only partially effective against the bacteria. While the new vaccine, MVA85A, showed some boosting of the immune system in adults, it produced no reaction in infants who had been given BCG. Continue reading
