BCG vaccine can reverse Type 1 Diabetes

[Quartz]

This could be a huge discovery.

The BCG vaccine against tuberculosis can reverse Type 1 diabetes to almost undetectable levels, an eight-year study has shown.

US researchers found that just one jab, followed by a booster four weeks later, brought down average blood sugar levels to near normal within three years, and the effect lasted for the following five years.

I’m not diabetic but I know that a number of Dopers are.

[Beckdawrek]

Wow. It needs a good study and investigation.

[Iggy]

This is a real study, not some click bait bs. Exciting news.

The study was run out of Massachusetts General Hospital and published in a real journal npj Vaccines.

Long-term reduction in hyperglycemia in advanced type 1 diabetes: the value of induced aerobic glycolysis with BCG vaccinations appears to be the actual published study.

[ThelmaLou]

BCG = bacille Calmette-Guerin

I detest acronyms that aren’t spelled out at least once. Thank you. Carry on.