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Elephants with TB down 400 pills per day • May 21, 2025, 6:53 AM ET (Taipei Times)
PM Modi calls for targeted interventions in TB elimination efforts • May 13, 2025, 9:43 AM ET (The Hindu)
Zambia says it is tackling 'systematic' theft after US slashes medical aid • May 9, 2025, 9:12 AM ET (BBC)
Large numbers of TB survivors in South Africa struggling with lung damage, experts say • May 6, 2025, 11:21 AM ET (Daily Maverick)
Scientists introduce new engineered drug candidate for Mycobacterium abscessus, a dangerous cousin of TB • May 2, 2025, 9:48 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

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Also Known As TB • phthisis • white plague • consumption

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Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist
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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
American social reformer
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Eugene Lindsay Opie
American pathologist
René Dubos
American microbiologist
Jean Antoine Villemin
French physician
Cohnheim
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
German pathologist
Albert Calmette
French bacteriologist
Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt
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