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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm
  2. From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.med
  4. Subject: Re: Tuberculosis
  5. Message-ID: <72435@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 08:59:13 PST
  7. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  8. References: <725297239.AA00335@f-454.fidonet.org> <72401@cup.portal.com>
  9.   <1992Dec26.044012.18619@maths.tcd.ie>
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  12. > >BCG vaccine
  13. > >has been recommended for medical personnel, but its reported effectiveness
  14. > >ranges from 0% to 77%, and it destroys the usefulness of the PPD skin test.
  15. > 
  16. > What does this 0% mean?
  17. > Are you saying (or reporting)
  18. > that BCG was found to have _no_ effect in some trial?
  19. > Where was this trial?
  20.  
  21. The reference provided in the article I quoted is to _Science_,
  22. 1992; 257:  1055-1064.  I have not seen the referent article.
  23.