Centennial vaccine against emerging pathogens
Instead, they want to develop tools for use in the next pandemic, be it a vaccine against the general coronavirus, a deadly new strain of flu, or an unidentified pathogen.
The tuberculosis vaccine (BCG) can fight Covid-19 and other infectious diseases by boosting the immune system.
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, when vaccination was still a distant dream, some scientists tested whether an old tuberculosis vaccine, developed in the 1990s, could protect people.
The vaccine, called Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin (BCG), has long been shown to have widespread effects on the immune system, and can be given to infants in developing countries where tuberculosis is common.
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