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World TB Day Scheduled for March 24

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 10th, 1997

World TB Day on March 24, 1997, is the focal point of the World Health Organization's struggle to turn back the current global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB).

This ancient plague, whose imprint is found on the 6000 year old mummies of Pharaohs of Egypt, still claims nearly three million lives each year.

TB is resurgent in major cities throughout the west - from London, United Kingdom, and Milan, Italy, to New York, New York, and Miami, Florida. TB travels on airplanes, and accompanies the growing migration of people. It rides alongside the HIV/AIDS epidemic, infecting the same patients. TB has now begun to appear in virulent new drug-resistant...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-03-10)

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