The vaccine against tuberculosis that is routinely given to 75 percent of the world’s infants is too risky to give to those born infected with the AIDS virus, says a new study published by the World Health Organization. It recommended that vaccination be delayed until babies can be tested. The Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine, known as BCG, protects children well against deadly tuberculous meningitis, though it does less well against the lung form. It has been in use since 1921, and children in many countries — though not the United States, which never adopted it — bear its characteristic round scar. But because it is a live vaccine, a weakened strain of bovine tuberculosis, it can cause its own problem — “disseminated BCG disease,” a type of bacterial infection that can rage through the body. It is fatal in more than 70 percent of cases.

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... administrators of the hospital got the bright idea to put them in our overflow unit. Sick children cry a lot. They rarely sleep. When they do sleep, you want them to stay asleep. A psychiatric floor is no place for sick children! I do not feel that children should have been moved to our floor because we are a locked unit. We have to use keys to get in and out, open bathroom doors and utility room doors. Patients rooms are the only doors that do not lock. We get many dangerous, combative, and loud patients. Our confused patients sometimes carry baby dolls around and treat them just like their child. They walk them, rock them, and even try to feed them. Now we have real babies on the other side of the wall crying and our patients are on our side of the wall trying to get to them. They think that it is their child crying and they get very upset because they cant get to it. The noise that our patients make scares the children and wakes them at all hours of the night.Once awake, it is hard for the child to go back to sleep. This is not conducive to healing.Also, the private elevators are on the pediatric side of the locked door. Our psychiatric patients have to be brought through that unit to ours. This could prove to be dangerous for the children. I just do not feel that the decision makers were looking at all of the problems that could arise. I do not think that this idea was v...

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The idea came to the young lovebirds during the celebration of the New Year's eve. The families of the two talked about a holiday to Italy, which pretty much entertained Mika and Anna-Lena. The next morning, when their parents slept, the three children slipped out of the house and walked about a kilometer (0.6 miles) to the nearest tram station at Langenhagen, where the trio took a tram for Hanover central station, reports BBC News.