The bacillus Calmette-Guerin shot seems to train the body’s first line of immune defence to better fight infections
A vaccine that’s been used to prevent tuberculosis is being given to healthcare workers in Melbourne to see if it will protect them against the coronavirus.
“It can boost the immune system so that it defends better against a whole range of different infections, a whole range of different viruses and bacteria in a lot more generalised way,” said Curtis, who’s also a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Melbourne and head of the infectious diseases unit at the city’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
Although the vaccine, which gets used to immunise about 130-million newborns worldwide each year, may potentially offer protection to a broader group of people, the priority is on health workers who are at higher risk from being infected with coronavirus while caring for sick patients.
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