New research has found that delivering a stronger form of the tuberculosis vaccine directly to the lungs can help generate ...

Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need to return to your healthcare provider within 48 to 72 hours after the test ...

Speaking before a packed audience of scientists, health professionals, policymakers, and community leaders, the Minister ...

If successful, M72 might be the first new TB vaccine in more than a century to meet the WHO's target product profile, ...

A recent phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa found that Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination did not prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially ...

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have ...

A new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E, has entered Phase III clinical trials, with Kenyans among the 20,000 global participants enrolled by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Pharmaceutical giant ...

BCG is a weakened strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis, which is used worldwide as a vaccine against childhood tuberculosis.

Measles vaccine protects children beyond just measles by preventing immune memory loss and possibly boosting the immune ...

Vaccines do much more than prevent specific diseases — their side benefits save children's lives around the world ...

BCG vaccine is one of the oldest vaccines given to babies. It stands for Bacillus Calmette Gurrain, the strain of bovine tuberculosis used in the vaccine first made by French scientists Calmette ...

Though BCG can be given any time from birth to 15 days of life, in Kenya it is given along with the zero dose of oral polio vaccine at birth or before a mom is discharged from the hospital after ...