If people are left responsible for taking antibiotics for such a serious disease as the super TB, from becoming drug-resistant, isn't that just asking for superbugs? They need to come up with a vaccine to give people and take the responsibility for keeping the strains under control as much as possible. I hardly know of one person who hasn't discontinued antibiotics before their course of treatment is complete. They are hard on the body. Diarrhea, etc.
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The current vaccine for TB, called BCG, is really, really, ineffective in adults. It doesn't offer any protection. Also, if someone is already infected with a pathogen, a vaccine isn't going to help. Vaccine's are a preventative measure.
Plenty of people are working on better TB vaccines. It's one of the three leading killer infections (with malaria and HIV), so there's plenty of motivation to find a vaccine. It's just easier said than done in this case, due to the pathology and life cycle of the tuberculosis bacteria.
u cannot treat tb with vaccine ..in active stage .. their is no vaccine for active disease .. vaccine is only before the arrival of disease...
rabies is the only vaccine which is given after virus enters body ,...
tb can b vaccinated before .. with bcg .
but it reduces chance of active disease only in 80 percent of people ...
Vaccines don't treat diseases, they prevent them. Once you are infected it is too late.
Vaccines are no cure. And they don't prevent disease altogether - you can still get a disease with a vaccine it's just supposed to boost your immune systym so you get a milder case.As already stated most people who know they have tb are already in the active stage. SO what's next a vaccine for every disease? It won't work! They will continue to mutate. There is even the argument that superbugs are not only because of overuse of antibiotics, cleansers like triclosan and things like that but because of overuse of vaccines. There is still no proof that autisim isn't linked to vaccines (yes I know there isn't proof it is but it's to much of a conincidence for me). Antibiotics are not good for you long term as you stated however there are other alternatives -- theraputic grade essential oils have been shown to help, etc. We need to be educated not in fear.
As has already been said, vaccines do not treat disease, they prevent them, and are therefore not useful after someone has the disease.I'd like to add a comment on rabies, since it was mentioned as the only disease treated by vaccination. I'd like to explain that so no one gets confused on why THAT works.Rabies virus goes to the nerves nearest to the bite and travels up them to the brain. Until it actually gets to the brain, there are no symptoms. Basically there is no state of disease, just a potential for the disease. Don't get me wrong, once it gets into the nerves unless something is done to stop it it will reach the brain and it will cause the disease. There is one way to prevent the virus reaching the brain if the vaccine is not available. Cutting the nerves between the bite and the brain. There is no known case of the virus "jumping" over a severed nerve trunk.Vaccines work by stimulating your body to produce antibodies against the disease organisms. Basically you are given a weak form of the live organisms (or killed organisms) to make sure you have antibodies hanging around waiting for the real thing to show up. So the vaccine eliminates the time needed for your body to start a response; since its got the means to fight off organisms waiting around to be used it can destory more organisms more quickly.There is no treatment for rabies. None. There is no antibiotic that will kill it. BUT because of its unique method of causing disease if you stimulate the body of the person who was bitten to form enough antibodies to destroy all of the rabies virus particles BEFORE they get to the brain...no disease! That's why bites closer to the head are more dangerous, and why any child (smaller body = less length of nerve to travel) must be started on the vaccinations immediately...you don't have much time.
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