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Scientists from Britain and the US say they have discovered a chemical pathway that could be developed to cause tuberculosis to self destruct. The scale of the problems posed by tuberculosis are enormous. One in three people worldwide are carriers of ...

DAKAR, Mar 22, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Up to 11,734 cases of tuberculosis were reported in 2009 in Senegal, including 7,887 pulmonary tuberculosis cases, a medical source told Xinhua on Sunday. Dakar, the Senegalese capital, had 42 percent of the ...

LOS ANGELES — The incidence of tuberculosis infections in the United States dropped by an unusual and unexpectedly large 11.4 percent in 2009, the largest one-year decrease since federal agencies began tracking the disease in 1953, the Centers for ...