Bovine tuberculosis (TB) results in large economic losses to animal agriculture worldwide. The disease can also transmit to humans and cause severe illness and death. Researchers from Penn State, Addis Ababa University and the University of Cambridge have now demonstrated that a vaccine for TB currently used in humans significantly reduces infectiousness of vaccinated livestock, improving prospects for elimination and control. The study is published in the journal Science.
The spillover of infection from livestock has been estimated to account for about 10% of human tuberculosis cases….
