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[chickadoodles]

Bruce I don't think that hen is from eggs I sent Scg. Lol

But Scg can send her to me if she wants. Lol

 

[drumstick diva]

what ???

 

[getaclue]

bruce, that's what we call a June Beetle too, and right now there are tons of them out. I don't think they do any real damage though.

 

[perchie.girl]

A week behind in hump day questions... here's last weeks for ya

Where does the brand name of this old drug come from
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And this week's question is on tb vaccines -
1. What does BCG stand for?
2. Why doesn't the US routinely vaccinate for TB?
3. The BCG brand currently available in the US is brand name TICE... where did it get its name from and what do we use it for

My guess is Originally Thyroid was obtained from Pigs Armour ham?

1 BCG stands for bacille Calmette-Guerin
2.... Because its rare in the US these days... Same for Polio.
I have been vaccinated for both.
3 TICE® is a trademark dont know who but for live culture BCG...

We have TB out breaks here in San Diego.... Most likely because its a port of entry
every once and a while I hear of polio too.

deb

 

[ronott1]

My guess is Originally Thyroid was obtained from Pigs Armour ham?

1 BCG stands for bacille Calmette-Guerin
2.... Because its rare in the US these days... Same for Polio.
I have been vaccinated for both.
3 TICE® is a trademark dont know who but for live culture BCG...

We have TB out breaks here in San Diego.... Most likely because its a port of entry
every once and a while I hear of polio too.

deb

In San Diego it is from homeless and drug use. I read that they have to pressure clean the sidewalks because TB is present there...in the human waste...

 

[CapricornFarm]

A week behind in hump day questions... here's last weeks for ya

Where does the brand name of this old drug come from
View attachment 1410311

And this week's question is on tb vaccines -
1. What does BCG stand for?
2. Why doesn't the US routinely vaccinate for TB?
3. The BCG brand currently available in the US is brand name TICE... where did it get its name from and what do we use it for

Thyroid med comes from animal source i believe.

 

[bruceha2000]

Bruce I don't think that hen is from eggs I sent Scg. Lol

But Scg can send her to me if she wants. Lol

Hmmm, SCG says it came from your flock, you say no. Sounds like it is time for a DNA test

 

[perchie.girl]

In San Diego it is from homeless and drug use. I read that they have to pressure clean the sidewalks because TB is present there...in the human waste...

Has to come in from someplace.... originally.... Sigh. I had to drive through that encampment going to my Gynecologist....

All sorts of stuff can be picked up off those sidewalks....

deb

 

[ronott1]

Has to come in from someplace.... originally.... Sigh. I had to drive through that encampment going to my Gynecologist....

All sorts of stuff can be picked up off those sidewalks....

deb

I saw that in Old Sacramento last time I was there--The place smelled like urine

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It is made from the desiccated thyroid of pigs and I would imagine that Armour meat packing provided the "raw ingredients" hence the name...a guess.

Very good. Armour and company, a meat packing company, was made in the mid 1800s in Chicago. They used everything but the squeal and they would dry thyroids of pigs then pulvurize and make them into tablets. They stink.

Hot dogs! Armour hot dogs!

Armour? Like in the Hot Dogs.....LOL

1. BCG, stands for bacille Calmette-Guerin.
2. Because it throws off the TB skin testing, and there are multiple types of TB.
3. All I can find is that TICE is a strain developed by the University of Illinois. If it's an acronym for something, I'm not finding it. I do know the cultures are frozen, so TB that's ICEd? It is used mostly on adults with a certain strain of TB, but it's mostly used overseas.

Yup the bacillus means it is a bacterial rod .The two names are the people that took 13 years in a lab to make the non virulent strain.
Lots of reasons why we don't vaccinate. Not a high rate of infection plus the vaccine isn't so effective plus it makes the mantoux test ineffective.
Tice is the name of dr Fred tice from University of Illinois who was the inventor of that strains mentor
Maybe eventually there will be an scg-acillin