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One of the deadliest diseases health-care workers fight today, tuberculosis (often called TB) infects the lungs of one-third of the world's population and kills about 2 million people a year. While scientific breakthroughs brought this bacterial disease under control during the... Read Full Overview

Far from the consumption of another era, tuberculosis is having a resurgence in the United States. Often difficult to treat in the populations most likely to contract the disease, TB is a highly contagious public-health problem. Using diverse case studies, diagnosis, treatment... Read Full Overview