A baby receives the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis during a national immunization for children program at an integrated services post in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on June 9, 2022. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
A baby receives the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis during a national immunization for children program at an integrated services post in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on June 9, 2022. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
Tuberculosis surrendered the title of the world’s deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 struck, but it reclaimed that terrible distinction last year. As with COVID, a new vaccine could go a long way to sharply curtailing the disease, which killed about 1.4 million people a year before the pandemic and increased its deadly toll a bit after COVID took hold.
Scientists in South Africa and the U.S., along with the South African company Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines, have come up with a promising new strategy for a tuberculosis vaccine, and while there’s a long road ahead to bring the shots to market, a successful effort could yield an important new tool against the deadly pathogen.
Editor’s Note: The Brunswick City Commission’s Wednesday meeting ran past the deadline for the Thursday paper. For coverage of the first part of the meeting, visit thebrunswicknews.com or read it in Thursday’s edition of The News.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officers in Coastal Georgia may be tasked with enforcing regulations on the water, but their goal is public safety.
The Georgia Ports Authority’s $262 million infrastructure project is nearing completion at the Port of Brunswick’s Colonel’s Island terminal and already it is attracting new business, some of it at the dock, and some in nearby McIntosh County.
One of the best ways to make a gift stand out and create a lasting impression is to have the item personalized. Cunningham Jewelers, in downtown Brunswick, offers a variety of ways to personalize gifts – engraving, etching and embossing are all options.
Proud voices of freedom have cried defiantly from the shores of Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island for more than 200 years, but for most of that time the legacy of Ebo Landing went largely unheeded beyond the tightknit local African American community.
