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Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling • Feb. 20, 2025, 1:16 PM ET (New York Times)
TB forces 2017 league winner John Ndirangu to retire aged 30 • Feb. 12, 2025, 3:57 PM ET (Nation.Africa)
TB, malaria, newborn health services must restart, says USAID memo • Feb. 8, 2025, 4:58 AM ET (Reuters)
AI-based technology accelerates discovery of new tuberculosis drug candidates • Feb. 7, 2025, 5:20 AM ET (News-Medical)
AI accelerates search for new tuberculosis drug targets • Feb. 6, 2025, 7:19 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

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Also Known As TB • phthisis • white plague • consumption

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Paul Farmer
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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
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