Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Hopes of New Drugs, Vaccines for Tuberculosis

In Uganda, health experts are getting laboratories ready and preparing villagers in two districts for a large clinical trial to test the world's first experimental tuberculosis vaccine in nearly a century.

For Anne Wajja, a doctor who heads TB vaccine studies in Uganda, this could be the start of a turning point.

"New TB drugs and vaccines will be important, they will change the lives of ordinary people, it is definitely important to have a new vaccine," said Wajja, who spoke at a conference on lung health in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday.

Posted via web from Cancun Mexico News

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