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A look at efforts to stem the pandemic that is sweeping countries from Lesotho to Russia
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A rising star in public health is showing the world that the deadliest strains of tuberculosis can be treated anywhere
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The pandemic is growing in many places, and strains resistant to all existing drugs are emerging. To fight back, biologists are applying a host of cutting-edge drug development strategies
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Merrill Goozner traveled to Siberia to find out if rising rates of MDR-TB in Russia can be curbed
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The plight of inmates with TB in Russia's Tomsk province
Tuberculosis has never stopped being one of the world's most lethal infections
A team of Israeli, Palestinian and German scientists is analyzing DNA from human remains that date back to the ancient city of Jericho to try to understand more about the origins of tuberculosis
In Africa, patients and doctors battle the double whammy of AIDS and TB
Why loans to post-Soviet countries might have health consequences here
Higher ceilings and bigger windows might be simple fixes for fighting tuberculosis in hospitals strapped for cash
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