The world health organization warns that failure to control tuberculosis is endangering the globe. Mary Carr traces the history of this treatable disease
TUBERCULOSIS HAS long been recognised as a disease. In the 4th century BC Hippocrates called it phthises, a wasting disease affecting the lungs. It was not until1882 that Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, or
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