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Tuberculosis kills thousands of people every day – we aren't doing enough to stop it

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

“But hasn’t TB been eradicated?,” my seatmate on a recent flight to South Africa asked me. This question crops up pretty frequently when I tell people what I do for a living. I research the development of diagnostic tests for diseases using breath, sputum, blood and urine, and at the moment I am working on a diagnostic breath...

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