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World Service,20 Mar 1996,13 mins

The Tuberculosis Crisis

Health Matters

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The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely. The World Health Organisation's World Tuberculosis Day hopes to increase awareness of a disease that had been almost eradicated. More people are now dying of the disease than at the turn of the 20th Century, with antibiotic resistance a real problem.

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