Warren,
All my doctors/medical personnel have told me that BCG is live attenuated tuberculosis cells. Have they given me a bum rap and am I telling people wrong???
Buds and in appreciation,
Rosemary
Dear Rosemary,
How about, we're both right

I never trust my own recollection of information when intelligent people question me, so I looked it up. Here's what it says in Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_Calmette-Gu%C3%A9rin
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Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (weakened) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in humans by being specially cultured in an artificial medium for years.
Human tuberculosis is caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is a related but different organism than BCG's original organism.