Tuberculosis Vaccine
Vaccination strategies against AIDS and tuberculosis needed
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 12th, 2005
According to a study from Germany and England, "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis annually cause 3 million and 2 million deaths, respectively. Last year, 600,000 individuals, doubly infected with HIV and M. tuberculosis, died. Since World War One, approximately 150 million people have succumbed to these two infections - more total deaths than in all wars in the last 2,000 years."
"Although the perceived threats of new infections such as SARS, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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