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Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

A nurse treats a TB patient on a hospital bed

Hope for tuberculosis patients: FDA approves treatment for deadliest strain of drug-resistant TB

August 15, 2019Health & Medicine

Tuberculosis is the deadliest infectious disease in the world, killing about 1.6 million people in 2017. Drug-resistant strains make the disease even harder to contain.

People stand with face masks on the verandah of a yellow hospital building.

A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific

June 5, 2019Health & Medicine

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