tuberculosis: Media
infectious disease
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Why is it so hard to fight tuberculosis?
Learn why tuberculosis is still a threat to the human population.
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Tuberculosis
A doctor examining chest X-rays of patients infected with tuberculosis, which remains...
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tuberculosis
American Red Cross poster promoting a Christmas seal campaign to raise money to fight...
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tuberculosis vaccination
A child receiving a UNICEF-funded tuberculosis vaccine at a school in Bulacan province,...
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Lives saved by childhood vaccinations, 1974–2024
Vaccines and the estimates of lives saved over the period 1974–2024.
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Interactives
Vaccines by the numbers
Interactive chart displaying lives saved or birth rate increase from vaccines.
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