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Vitamin D: The cheaper and easier cure for TB
May 14 2007, Irani

The illness of the respiratory system — tuberculosis — spread by coughing and sneezing, astonishingly kills about 1.6 million people each year, even though it is curable. The death rate from the disease is the highest in the developing and...

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Federal Restrictions Hit Minn. Livestock
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Patients With Drug Resistant TB at Large
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Patients With Drug Resistant TB Escape
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Forty nine highly infectious tuberculosis patients cut through wire fencing and broke out of a hospital isolation unit, apparently because they wanted to spend...
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Thousands Gather at TB Meet in S. Africa
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Old drugs. Outdated tests. Empty promises. New threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city...
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Senators Want Full Story on Man With TB
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