{"id":3148,"date":"2013-03-11T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T10:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2013-03-11T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T10:52:37","slug":"remember-the-past-bcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Remember the past: BCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember learning at the doctor's office for the immigration documents months ago, that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BCG_vaccine\" target=\"_blank\">BCG<\/a> (every 12 years?) is not given in USA. In the States, its closest equivalent is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mantoux_test\" target=\"_blank\">PPD<\/a> test, for tuberculosis. It is said that this is due to the fact that the States do not view such vaccination necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember learning at the doctor's office for the immigration documents months ago, that BCG (every 12 years?) is not given in USA. In the States, its closest equivalent is the PPD test, for tuberculosis. It is said that this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}