BCG

abbreviation

bacille Calmette-Guérin (antituberculosis vaccine)

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In 2016 the WHO noted the otherwise inexplicable effects of BCG and measles vaccines on childhood mortality, while in 2020 the widely-respected journal Nature included non-specific effects in a list of “milestones in vaccines.”

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Indeed, there’s evidence to suggest it may have been a mistake to stop administering the smallpox vaccine after the total elimination of smallpox, or to end the BCG vaccine as tuberculosis infection became rare.

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A large Danish study compared children who received the BCG and smallpox vaccines to a cohort that did not.

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Add to that similar effects from BCG and measles vaccination, and we have, Aaby says, an explanation for the dramatic decline in childhood mortality in many such countries.

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A recently published analysis by BCG found at least 75 "AI-discovered molecules" have entered clinical trials with many more expected.