“…By analyzing the above data, it is not difficult to see that children and infants' mortality decreased by approximately 50% after BCG vaccination. BCG's protection can hardly explain this data against TB alone, which may be related to BCG's protection against unrelated infectious agents (including viruses, bacteria, and protozoa) [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] ( Table 1 ). These beneficial effects have been considered to be related to the nonspecific effects, including prophylactic protection effects, immunotherapy effects, as well as enhancement effects on other vaccines.…”