Skin test for tuberculosisWIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CDC PUBLIC HEALTH IMAGE LIBRARY
Thousands of children, women, and men die each day from tuberculosis (TB). It is the deadliest infectious disease after HIV, and increasing drug resistance threatens to wipe out medicine’s best weapons against the TB bacterium. New tools to control the disease are needed to bring this global epidemic to a halt and prevent millions from suffering. To this end, we and others drafted “Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade,” which lays out a plan for solving the current problems caused by this ancient disease using one of the most effective and affordable public health tools modern science offers for infectious diseases: vaccines.
The only vaccine currently available for TB was developed more than 90 years ago and is ineffective against the spread ...
