tuberculosis
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A government hospital insisted it was tuberculosis, although silicosis can also make people more susceptible to TB.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
They can even detect tuberculosis, an infectious disease that commonly affects the lungs, far quicker than it would be found in a lab using conventional microscopy, Apopo has said.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing tuberculosis
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