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tuberculosis

[too-bur-kyuh-loh-sis, tyoo-] / tʊˌbɜr kjəˈloʊ sɪs, tjʊ- /
NOUN
infection
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The US plans to expand the rollout of the drug Lenacapavir by working with an international group, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the Gilead Sciences pharmaceutical company.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

Tuberculosis is their companion in al-Sina, where they are being held indefinitely.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

For good and ill, all of these reasons have made Everything Is Tuberculosis perhaps the most relevant of the nine books Green has written or co-written—a fact that doesn’t escape him.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2025

Tuberculosis is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases, causing over one million deaths each year worldwide.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

Tuberculosis was only discovered in the nineteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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