During the General Audience, Spanish researcher Carlos Mart\u00edn Monta\u00f1\u00e9s gave the pope good news. After 30 years of research, they may have found an effective vaccine against tuberculosis, which causes more deaths than any other disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cPope Francis, I am a researcher from Zaragoza. I have been working on a vaccine against tuberculosis for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
CARLOS MART\u00cdN MONTA\u00d1\u00c9S Tuberculosis is the world\u2019s most serious infectious disease and the second leading cause of death.<\/p>\n Of the 10 million people that contracted the disease in 2017, 1.6 million died. The UN has set out to eradicate it by 2030.<\/p>\n The vaccine developed by Dr. Mart\u00edn Monta\u00f1\u00e9s\u2019 team can help, as it is effective even when transmitted via the respiratory tract.<\/p>\n The vaccine has been tested on animals and humans. It is one stage away from final release and distribution.<\/p>\n CARLOS MART\u00cdN MONTA\u00d1\u00c9S Dr. Mart\u00edn Monta\u00f1\u00e9s traveled to Rome with the Jesuit professor who taught him science in school. They are proud of the vaccine\u2019s humanitarian impact.<\/p>\n JUAN JES\u00daS BASTERO According to him, the vaccine has been successfully administered to babies and adults in Switzerland and South Africa. Its use and safety are currently being tested on other population groups. <\/p>\n Now everything depends on the interests of governments and institutions. The sooner results are obtained and the vaccine\u2019s efficiency proven, the sooner distribution can begin. They have asked for the pope\u2019s help with precisely that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 13th, 2019. Among infectious diseases, it is the leading cause of death, ahead of AIDS and malaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/v_hanvJ2gfA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btuberculosiseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btuberculosisint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nResearcher, University of Zaragoza (Spain)<\/strong>
\n\u201cWe need his spiritual help and his commitment to help less privileged people and the poorest populations to fight against this illness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearcher, University of Zaragoza (Spain)<\/strong>
\n\u201cAs soon as it can be administered, we will be able to help control the disease.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEl Salvador College (Spain)<\/strong>
\n\u201cCarlos Mart\u00edn Monta\u00f1\u00e9s was one of my first students, who certainly, as we used to say, surpassed the master.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n