Leah Geller

New vaccine shows how Canada can tackle TB

Leah Geller
May 4, 2022

A team of Canadian researchers at McMaster University is developing an inhalable TB vaccine that would act as a booster to strengthen immune protection right at the site of infection — the lungs. If successful, it would be among the first new effective TB vaccines in the world.

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McMaster University, Nunavut, Ottawa Hospital, Public Health Agency of Canada, Stop TB Canada, and TB Reach
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Gonzalo Alvarez, Harjit Sajjan, and Lena Faust
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COVID-19, pandemic, public health, tuberculosis, and vaccine

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