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Author Topic: TB Test aka Mantoux test  (Read 818 times)
typoonblade
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« on: June 30, 2012, 10:33:55 PM »

i do know about the dangers of vaccines, but is the TB test bad too?


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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 06:33:33 AM »

The Mantoux test is not a vaccine.  Like the name implies it tests for reactivity (an immune response in the skin) to bacterial proteins when a person has been exposed to the tuberculosis bacteria.  It doesn't claim to prevent anything.  It is merely a test.
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