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BCG vaccination in the UK
RDIP, Volume 18, Number 4.

BCG is an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis, which was developed by two French men – Calmette and Guerin – by passage of the bacillus over 100 times. It was ready for trials in the 1920s. Unfortunately, in 1927 there was a mix-up of vaccine with live M tuberculosis in Lubeck and infants were injected with the live tubercle bacillus instead of BCG. Many of them died and it took many years for BCG to get over its erroneously earned bad reputation.1

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