Medical scientists now have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags...
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