Quote Originally Posted by tarquinbeech View Post
Guess which other country has no compulsory vaccination for TB?.....HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN HERE

http://www.bcgatlas.org/

They moved from 1,255 deaths PER DAY yesterday to the staggering figure of 1,919 today....IN ONE DAY, 10,871 dead to 12,790.....I repeat this figure of deaths per day....almost 2,000....yes, the USA....if you click on the country, it says BCG recommendation only for specific groups or none at all....they have never had a vaccination program for TB.

Was it honestly that simple?......trigger a vaccine response as a small child to a disease that 30% of the population carry around as normal....2 billion of us carry around the several strains of TB.....I'm still not sure (I'm just a lonely goatherder, not a scientist) but it's starting to look more likely as each day passes.

Quote - About a third of the world's population, or around 2 billion people, carry the TB bacteria but most never develop the active disease.

 https://www.who.int/3by5/TBfactsheet.pdf
The figures are horrible. However if you drill down into them by socio economic group it is the lower socio economic groups who are much harder hit in particular black people. This is something of a sweeping statement but I would expect lower socio economic groups to live in less sanatised conditions as they have less money to clean etc. This makes something of a mockery of Jackals statement above ( no offense Jackal). I am not sure what the stats are on older folks being less likely to have the TB jab perhaps there is a correlation there as well.