Without all the facts, I understand jumping on the band wagon of an approach that could prevent the death of two million people per year worldwide. But, what the story fails to tell us is that, over one-third of the world's population is infected with TB. It actually affects over two billion people, meaning one in every thousand infected will die from the disease.

Clearly there are factors beyond some big, bad, scary mycobacteria. It is also one's immune system in relation to the fundamental improvements promoted in my newsletter every day . For this reason, an effective vaccine program is beyond my imagination. We could reduce the need for such vaccinations by simply adopting a healthier lifestyle.

However, there is a lot of money at stake. The drug's manufacturer, one of the wealthiest corporstions in the world, stands to make billions of dollars because the potential market is so large. At least half of the world, perhaps even the entire population of the planet, would be targeted for this vaccine in an effort to rid the world of TB - just like they did with smallpox. But, don't let them convince you. Prior to the 9/11 smallpox bioterrorism effort, the last reported case of smallpox was in Somalia in 1978.

Now, you need to pay attention to the word "reported". There is a different disease in Africa that is essentially smallpox, but it has been renamed "monkeypox". It is alive and well and, according to ABC News, spreading in Central Africa. Basically, smallpox was never really eliminated, just renamed.

We all have enough to worry about with the Smallpox vaccine, but I have to give people a big heads up on the likely TB vaccine.

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