Re: Examples of Primadonna behaviour please



wkasimer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

wkasimer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


It hasn't - there's no vaccine against TB, to the best of my knowledge.
It must have been a different vaccine, or the skin test to test for
exposure to the organism.



Sorry about that.  What I should have said is that TB vaccination is of
questionable efficacy, and not in widespread use.  Vaccines do exist,
though.

Ah that would explain it - our British cousins use it routinely, but it's not been "approved" by our FDA? 

Bill


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