New survey finds highest rates of drug-resistant TB to date
The report, "Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world", is based on data collected between 2002 and 2006 on 90 000 TB patients in 81 countries. It found that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a virtually untreatable form [... more]
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Living Shadow Death Tuberculosis
 Fascinating, informative...and overwhelmingly sad: "\oT\cuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. From 1800 to 1870 tuberculosis was responsible for one out of [... more]
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WHO / 10 facts on injuries and violence
With more than 5 million deaths every year, violence and injuries account for 9% of global mortality, as many deaths as from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Eight of the 15 leading causes of death for people ages 15 to 29 years are ... [... more]
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World leaders call for action to reduce TB deaths among ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is every year taking the lives of nearly a quarter of million people living with HIV. It is the number one cause of death among people living with HIV in Africa. Worldwide it is a leading cause of death in this population. WHO, ... [... more]
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Franz Kafka
The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company ... [... more]
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Kevin Patterson
Born in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at age ten, she is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis. Six years later, she returns to a radically different world, a stranger to her family and ... [... more]
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Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870
Author: Katherine Ott Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 616.99500973 EAN: 9780674299108 ISBN: 0674299108 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1996-11-01 [... more]
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White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the ...
Author: Randall M. Packard Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 614.5420968 EAN: 9780520065758 ISBN: 0520065751 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1989-11-06 [... more]
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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of ...
Author: Emily K. Abel Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616.99500979494 EAN: 9780813541761 Edition: 1 ISBN: 081354176X Number Of Pages: 188 Publication Date: 2007-10 [... more]
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Tuberculosis
Author: William N Rom Author: Stuart M Garay Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 616.995 EAN: 9780781736787 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0781736781 Number Of Pages: 790 Publication Date: 2003-09-01 [... more]
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Toman's Tuberculosis: Case Detection, Treatment
Author: Frieden Binding: Paperback EAN: 9789241546034 Edition: 2 ISBN: 9241546034 Number Of Pages: 332 Publication Date: 2004-06-15 [... more]
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Tuberculosis
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 616.995 EAN: 9783540014416 Edition: 1 ISBN: 3540014411 Number Of Pages: 930 Publication Date: 2004-01-22 [... more]
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