Big Pharma Company Stalled Tuberculosis Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits

Allowing a potentially lifesaving vaccine to languish shows the distressing reality of public health vaccine creation.

Ever since he was a medical student, Dr. Neil Martinson has confronted the horrors of tuberculosis, the world’s oldest and deadliest pandemic. For more than 30 years, patients have streamed into the South African clinics where he has worked — migrant workers, malnourished children and pregnant women with HIV — coughing up blood. Some were so emaciated, he could see their ribs. They’d breathed in...

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