| Vaccine hope on asthma A VACCINE to protect children against tuberculosis may prevent asthma, researchers have found. Sydney scientists have discovered that children with a family history of allergies who received the BCG vaccine in infancy were protected. BCG is used extensively in countries with a high rate of tuberculosis but has not been widely used in Australia. The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found children who had been vaccinated had a significantly lower prevalence of asthma. Dr Guy Marks, head of epidemiology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, said further research was needed.
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