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it's thursday august 18th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Could a century-old vaccine help protect against future epidemics?

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In 1921, French scientists developed a tuberculosis vaccine. Adopted that decade by the World Health

Organization's predecessor, it wasn't widely used until after World War II. However, since then, it's been

given to about 100 million children around the world every year, because in addition to protecting

against tuberculosis, it's also used to generally protect against a number

of other diseases. The Basilis Kalmet-G-G-Vecine or BCG vaccine is now renewing hope that it could

be deployed as an effective vaccine against COVID-19 or even unknown future pathogens. A new paper published Monday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine

showed incredible efficacy from the BCG vaccine on participants with type 1 diabetes in particular,

people who are highly susceptible to various infections. The BCG trial on this group actually

began before COVID-19 emerged.

But once the pandemic began, the researchers worked with an independent group to monitor

COVID infections among the participants.

The trial included 144 people, and of the 96 who actually received the BCG vaccine instead

of a placebo, only one of them got COVID compared to the six

with placebo shots who got it. Now, of course, that was one small study, but as lead author, Dr.

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