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| Subject: A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It? Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:23 pm | |
| Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.”
Tuberculosis struck 10 million people worldwide in 2017, killing 1.6 million of them — a toll greater than that of H.I.V., malaria, measles and Ebola combined. TB is the leading infectious killer around the globe; nearly 1.8 billion people are carrying the bacterium that causes the disease.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/health/tuberculosis-prevention.html |
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