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I have NEVER heard of a TB Immunization!!! There is a TB TEST that you can take. It is required when working in the Medical Health Field. What if I have been vaccinated with BCG? BCG is a vaccine for TB. This vaccine is not widely used in the United States, but it is often given to infants and small children in other countries where TB is common. BCG vaccine does not always protect people from getting TB. If you were vaccinated with BCG, you may have a positive reaction to a TB skin test. This reaction may be due to the BCG vaccine itself or due to infection with the TB bacteria. Your positive reaction probably means you have been infected with TB bacteria if You recently spent time with a person who has active TB disease; or You are from an area of the world where active TB disease is very common (such as most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia); or You spend time where TB disease is common (homeless shelters, migrant farm camps, drug-treatment centers, health care clinics, jails, prisons).
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do they still give those immunizations...iw a s told two months ago that they treat and contain it these days
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/250120.htm check out this web site. IT might help you out and give you some more info...
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Try this site: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/VaccineInfo/vaccine_detail.cfv?id=18 I worked in Health care and I had to be checked yearly for TB. I think it was called a PPD test. Anyway, my son had BCG vaccine in Venezuela and it caused him to test positive when he was a baby here in the U.S. Well, I hope this helped and Good Luck!
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Generally it lasts for life. My sons were vaccinated in the 60's and they still show positive when tested, which was a hoot in school the first time they got tested I had the Health Nurse at my door, because it was common to inoculate them where we come from but not common at all in Canada. But I had the papers from the BCG test, because they wanted to quarantine them.
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Studies examining vaccine’s effectiveness against tuberculosis of the lungs have drawn various conclusions; however, one large study found the vaccine to protect about 50% of recipients. Effectiveness rates are highest among those who get the vaccination in early childhood. Those who receive the vaccine may still develop TB, but approximately 80% of recipients are protected from developing life-threatening forms of the disease, such as miliary disease and meningitis (inflammation of the brain). Accurate rates of adverse events due to the TB vaccine are difficult to estimate, but serious or long-term complications after TB immunization are uncommon. Frequent reactions to the TB vaccine include redness, swelling, or soreness at the injection site. Moderate swelling of the lymph nodes in the armpits or neck, which may progress to pus-filled nodes that require drainage in some people, also occurs. In addition, swelling at the injection site may turn into a pustule and then a scar. An ulcer may develop where the shot was given in some people. These reactions occur after approximately 1% to 2% of immunizations, and may last three months or longer. Because the TB vaccine is a live vaccine, it may cause TB meningitis, or disseminated TB (TB infection that has spread throughout the body), which occurs at a rate of 0.06 to 1.56 cases per 1 million vaccinated. The vaccine may also cause tuberculosis infection of bone growth centers, which may occur several years after the vaccine was given. A person previously vaccinated may have a positive reaction to a TB skin test, potentially causing confusion for health care providers attempting to determine if that person has TB. Outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, mainly among HIV-infected people, have been reported in the U.S. These tuberculosis cases respond poorly to treatment and have very high death rates.
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TB immunizations are folk lore and have never been used or proven effective.
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as far as i know there is no TB immunization i do know that you can have the germ of it and as long as you take meds you will be fine.
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The rest of your life as long as your immunity does not get compromised. once its compromised you get Tuberculosis
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