March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day

Many people think that tuberculosis is a disease of antiquity, eliminated decades ago by improvements in living conditions and the discovery of effective antibiotic treatment. But one-third of the world's population has been infected with TB and in 2008, there were more than nine million new cases, about three million more than two decades ago. Why isn't it going away? read more

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