but it's not used here because its efficacy is variable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine

That's why there used to be laws that prohibited spitting in a public place; the sputum could contain TB.

The 19th century called it "consumption" and was viewed as a disease commonplace around poverty.

No sympathy for any adult anti-vax imbeciles.

Also, iron lung is not used in TB treatment. So what are you talking about?

so we'll never know the exact extent of infections, and or course with the resultant unnecessary deaths.

I was just going to post this--then I saw your OP. It fits.


Kansas Voters in ‘Find Out’ Phase as Effects of Anti-Vaccine-Mandate Law Turn Into Historic Tuberculosis Outbreak
This is terrifying.

https://www.politicalflare.com/2025/01/kansas-voters-in-find-out-phase-as-effects-of-anti-vaccine-mandate-law-turn-into-historic-tuberculosis-outbreak/

By Andrew Simpson January 27, 2025


Twenty-plus years ago, Thomas Frank wrote a book called What’s the Matter With Kansas? in hopes of shedding some light on the new-ish at the time phenomenon of people actively and consistently voting against their own best interests.

Obviously that wasn’t brand new — the Reagan era ushered in a whole generation of voters deeply affected by the exact political machinations that Frank describes in his book that turned former working-class populist types into fervent Republicans.

But what Thomas Frank outlined in the book about using social issues to make people forget about economic ones is now even more apparent. And ironically, it’s thanks to Kansas. Republicans there, possibly setting the tone for the GOP across the country, have begun making everything into a social issue, even health.

There was a time not so long ago when, apart from moms who were convinced by convicted fraudster Andrew Wakefield’s bogus 1998 study linking vaccines to autism, everyone agreed that not only were vaccines universally good, but that they were perhaps the greatest medical advancement in human history...............

Ya, we're fucked.