Dr Ujuwa Choukwa, a Virologist, has assured that vaccination against Tuberculosis (TB) will expand the age-long fight against the disease.
Choukwa told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, in Abuja that a TB vaccine is being sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute “and if successful, it will go a long way in addressing the scourge.”
She said that TB, a bacterial infection often seen in the lungs, infects about 10 million people annually, killing about 1.5 million.
She said “a live attenuated vaccine in use for nearly a century called Bacillus Calmette-Guerin prevents severe disease in infants and young children, but gives limited protection to adolescents…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
