The Bacille Calmette Guerin vaccine popularly called BCG vaccine is a vaccine to prevent which of th...........

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The Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine (popularly called BCG vaccine) is a vaccine to prevent which of these diseases?

Polio

Typhoid

Tuberculosis

Jaundice

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BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. Many foreign-born persons have been BCG-vaccinated. BCG is used in many countries with a high prevalence of TB to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease.