Africa/Global: TB vaccines 'fail poorer nations'
04.08.2005
Current TB vaccines are flawed and will fail to protect people living near the Equator, warn UK experts. While boosting a person's natural immunity works in richer Western countries, in poorer nations this approach does not work, they say. According to the University College London team, a better way would be to suppress inappropriate responses by the body that allow the disease to thrive.