Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - TB/TB vaccine (BCG)

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Diseases and vaccines - TB/TB vaccine (BCG)

March 1-7, 2004

►March 5, 2004 - Louisiana: Fourteen Elementary Students Test Positive for TB - AP via www.aegis.org

 ►March 2, 2004 - Non-Profit Experiment Tests Drug Industry's Assumptions - Financial Times via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract) - "Volunteers who enrolled at St. Louis University for a clinical trial of an experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine are among the first in a new attempt at nonprofit drug and vaccine development in the industrialized world, with not-for-profit organizations challenging the dominance held by pharmaceutical companies over the world of medicine."

►March 3, 2004 - Old Diseases Fall Off Public Health Radar; Complacency Allows Malaria, TB To Flourish - USA Today via www.intelihealth.com - "Microbial killers such as drug-resistant malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and syphilis continue to ravage the world. Health experts say they know how to prevent and treat these diseases, but first they need to overcome a different kind of public health enemy: complacency...Public attention in the past two years has focused on new diseases, such as SARS, and new threats, such as bioterrorism, but scientists here at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases say the lack of attention to older diseases is allowing them to flourish."

►February 28, 2004 - Kids to Get Early Booster in TB Scare - Glasgow Evening Times via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

February 23-29, 2004

►February 19, 2004 - TB vaccine research 'doubled' - With a single grant, Gates Foundation says it boosts global investment by 100% - The Scientist 

►February 25, 2004 - Geogia: Health Officials Rate TB Cases 'Outbreak' - Atlanta Journal-Constitution via www.aegis.org

►February 22, 2004 - TB patient arrested - AP via www.news-star.com

►February 23, 2004 - Missouri: Officials Urge Hundreds of Workers to Get Tuberculosis Test - AP via www.aegis.org

February 16-22, 2004

►February 17, 2004 - Clinical trial of new TB vaccine begins - New vaccine may prove more potent than 100-year-old current vaccine - Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation via www.eurekalert.org

►February 16, 2004 - TB cases increase 20% in four years, report warns - The New Zealand Herald - "Tuberculosis - a potentially lethal disease that was nearly wiped out in New Zealand - is making a comeback...And those who think they are protected by vaccinations given between the 1960s and the 1980s should think again. The vaccine has been found to be only 50 per cent effective."

February 9-15, 2004

►February 12, 2004 - Immune to the romance of TB - The Victorians considered it an aphrodisiac, but with its incidence rising, the good news is that there is a new vaccine - Times Online, UK

►February 12, 2004 - Gates Foundation Commits $82.9 Million to Develop New Tuberculosis Vaccines - Grant is the Largest Ever to Support TB Vaccine Research and Development  - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via PRNewswire via Yahoo!

►February 16, 2004 - New TB vaccine advances - www.ama-assn.org - "A new vaccine, made with several proteins from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, will soon enter the first phase of human testing. It is the first TB vaccine tested in the United States in more than 60 years...A recombinant vaccine, it combines two TB proteins known to stimulate strong human immune responses. The proteins were initially identified by screening blood taken from volunteers who never became ill with tuberculosis despite long-term infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The TB proteins were fused and then combined with adjuvants."

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

►February 6, 2004 - Kids TB vaccine fears - icSouthLondon.co.uk - "HEALTH officials have admitted there is a TB problem in South London because of a backlog in the vaccination programme...The innoculation of people "at risk" was halted in 2000 because of a shortage of the drug. The backlog has still not been cleared."

►January 9, 2004 - Firefighters given tetanus instead of TB shots - Reno Gazette-Journal

►January 26, 2004 - Doctors Fear Untreatable Russia Tuberculosis Boom - Reuters

►January 26, 2004 - U.S. to Begin 1st Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial in 60 Years - www.kron4.com

Comment:  TB declined in the United States without the use of vaccine.

January 19-25, 2004

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January 12-18, 2004

►January 14, 2004 - Tests Planned for Genetically Engineered TB Vaccine - Reuters

January 5-11, 2004

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December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

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