BCG is easily and widely and inexpensively made available to the citizens of the United States?
see eg pubmed.org faustman dl and /or faustmanlab.org
Dr. Burke should contemplate that the US was once able to treat the cause of causalgia and is presently unable to do so.
See The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 describing the treatment of the cause of causalgia as witnessed by the patient, Mrs. J Edward Spike Jr.,'s, personal physician Mark Altschule MD of Harvard Medical School.
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Donald S. Burke, MD
- Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH)
- Director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, Health Sciences
- Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Donald S. Burke, MD, dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate
School of Public Health (GSPH), is one of the world’s foremost experts
in prevention, diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of global
concern, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis A, avian influenza and emerging
infectious diseases.
In addition to serving as dean of GSPH, Dr.
Burke is director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine
Research and serves in the newly established position of associate vice
chancellor for global health, health sciences. He also is the first
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Jonas Salk Professor of Global
Health.
Before joining the University of Pittsburgh,
Dr. Burke was a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, where he served as associate chair of the department of
international health and director of the Center for Immunization
Research. He also was principal investigator of National Institutes of
Health-supported research projects on HIV vaccines, biodefense and
emerging infectious diseases.
Prior to his tenure at Johns Hopkins, Dr.
Burke served 23 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, leading military
infectious disease research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research in Washington, D.C., and at the Armed Forces Research Institute
of Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand. He retired at the rank of
colonel.
Dr. Burke’s career-long mission has been
prevention and mitigation of the impact of epidemic infectious diseases
of global importance. His research activities have spanned a wide range
of science “from the bench to the bush,” including development of new
diagnostics, population-based field studies, clinical vaccine trials,
computational modeling of epidemic control strategies and policy
analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 research reports
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