Professor Paul Fine, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the BCG story was a very complicated one.

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Von Lipinski's story is typical of what Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, knows of these sorts of infections.

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Here's one horror story, from Dr. Robert Centor, dean of the Hunstville campus at the University of Alabama School of Medicine.

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