Considering tuberculosis attacks the lungs this study is interesting in it's positive effects.
By Kaylan Ray
A one-hundred-year-old vaccine (click here) to safeguard children from tuberculosis has been shown to boost the immune system in senior citizens in India, priming the body's internal defence mechanism to take on Covid-19, suggests new research from the Indian Council of Medical Research.
While the new ICMR study hasn't yet demonstrated the actual protection, initial results from the trials of BCG vaccine on the elderly are promising.
The study is part of ICMR's larger multi-centre trial to check whether BCG vaccination in the 60-plus group can protect them against Covid-19.
The Indian trial was launched in the wake of multiple scientific reports of how countries with BCG vaccine in their child immunization portfolio had benefited indirectly with a lower number of Covid-19 positive cases as well as deaths....
