Cameroon runs out of BCG vaccine

APAnews | Cameroon’s Public Health Minister, André Mama Fouda, said in a statement the country is running out of “Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, used to prevent Tuberculosis and severe respiratory diseases attributed to Koch’s bacillus. This situation, which dates back to early December, is attributed to a bottleneck in the international supply chain for vaccines. …