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BCG - Priorities?
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<blockquote data-quote="matthew" data-source="post: 782786" data-attributes="member: 169"><p>For several years now, the great and the good at FERA have been playing with BCG vaccinations, both injection and oral, for badgers. It has been rolled out as an alternative to culling the infectious ones, on the grounds that they will die off in a short while, leaving a healthy population of no risk to cattle or anything else.</p><p></p><p>Defra would like to use it too, if only to 'pump prime' us into accepting the concept.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/all-clear-in-5-years.html" target="_blank">http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/all-clear-in-5-years.html</a></p><p></p><p>But from the Mail on Sunday, comes a rather different slant on this drug (BCG)</p><p>It is in very short supply, and a couple of years ago, the US and Canadian news reports were speaking of shortages for their cancer patients. </p><p></p><p>Yesterday, it was reported here.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2881811/Bladder-cancer-crisis-thousands-left-without-crucial-drug-British-hospitals-running-perilously-low-supplies.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2881811/Bladder-cancer-crisis-thousands-left-without-crucial-drug-British-hospitals-running-perilously-low-supplies.html</a></p><p></p><p>The dose used for vaccinating GB badgers, unscreened for their current disease status, is 10x the human one (used for tuberculosis.)</p><p></p><p>Nice to know we have our priorities right.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]92090[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="matthew, post: 782786, member: 169"] For several years now, the great and the good at FERA have been playing with BCG vaccinations, both injection and oral, for badgers. It has been rolled out as an alternative to culling the infectious ones, on the grounds that they will die off in a short while, leaving a healthy population of no risk to cattle or anything else. Defra would like to use it too, if only to 'pump prime' us into accepting the concept. [url]http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/all-clear-in-5-years.html[/url] But from the Mail on Sunday, comes a rather different slant on this drug (BCG) It is in very short supply, and a couple of years ago, the US and Canadian news reports were speaking of shortages for their cancer patients. Yesterday, it was reported here. [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2881811/Bladder-cancer-crisis-thousands-left-without-crucial-drug-British-hospitals-running-perilously-low-supplies.html[/url] The dose used for vaccinating GB badgers, unscreened for their current disease status, is 10x the human one (used for tuberculosis.) Nice to know we have our priorities right. [ATTACH=full]92090[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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