Posted on 02/25/2024 1:10:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Studies suggest the BCG jab discovered a century ago could provide a cheap and effective way of boosting the immune system to protect people from developing the condition
Scientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Guérin aimed to discover how bovine tuberculosis was transmitted. To do so, they first had to find a way of cultivating the bacteria. Sliced potatoes – cooked with ox bile and glycerine – proved to be the perfect medium.
As the bacteria grew, however, Calmette and Guérin were surprised to find that each generation lost some of its virulence. Animals infected with the microbe (grown through many generations of their culture) no longer became sick but were protected from wild TB. In 1921, the pair tested this potential vaccine on their first human patient – a baby whose mother had just died of the disease. It worked, and the result was the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine that has saved millions of lives.
French veterinarian Camille Guérin and physician Albert Calmette developed the BCG jab in 1921 using sliced potatoes cooked with ox bile and glycerine. Photograph: Musée Pasteur Calmette and Guérin could have never imagined that their research would inspire scientists investigating an entirely different kind of disease more than a century later. Yet that is exactly what is happening, with a string of intriguing studies suggesting that BCG can protect people from developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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They can if they get a new patient !
Don’t think I’d trust them not to put a little something extra in this.
I wonder if it’s possible to get the BCG tuberculosis vaccine in the US and what hoops to jump thru to do so?
As a possible preventative against Alzheimers, that is.
Good news for those of us reaching retirement age.
Everyone knows…ONLY VACCINES CAN SAVE US!!
SAVE AND BUMP
Type 3 diabetes. Stop eating processed junk food.
The current shingles vaccine (non mRNA) seems to do this as well as I just posted in another thread.
What an amazing coincidence!
And another amazing coincidence!
Big Pharma is blessed.
Well, they are blessed if it’s a medication that they can patent and charge a lot for.
That’s certainly the situation with the shingles jab.
That will never do. We need to get Fauci to outlaw that vaccine so that Pfizer can start selling a new placebo.
Very good news. There isn’t much I dread more than dementia.
BCG varieties are still/already used all over the world, I think including Mexico and Japan, so example. Kids get it. BCG is an old safe vaccine. It ramps up the immune system in general. It helps with TBs and in fact there are some studies showing it helps with COVIDs, just as an example. It is not perfect on TB, and makes TB skin tests turn somewhat positive. I think I would take it if it was easily available in these US.
FYI links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062527/
Bkmk
Ox bile? How about the eye of a newt just for good measure?
Too late for the current occupant of the White House.
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