U.S. Must Fight Harder Against TB
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May 16 (Bloomberg) -- In 2011, tuberculosis killed 1.4million people worldwide, almost as many as died from HIV/AIDS.And death isn’t the only damage TB does.
In many countries, women with the disease are stigmatizedand abandoned. Families of poor victims find themselves thrustfurther into poverty. And infants and children who get TB --often from their parents -- go undiagnosed. TB remains the mostcommon cause of death among people with HIV, and in developingcountries skyrocketing rates of smoking and diabetes -- alsorisk factors for TB -- are driving the epidemic.