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Antibiotic resistant TB is a growing problem.
TB = tuberculosis -- a serious and highly contagious type of lung infection

He died of tuberculosis just a year after the creation of Pakistan and we haven't stopped fighting since. (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013
tuberculosis = a serious and highly contagious type of lung infection

I kept telling myself Dad was right, that they knew how to look after themselves and each other, but in the spring, Mom called me to say Dad had come down with tuberculosis. (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

After graduation she accepts a position, at the urging of her father's friends, as a nurse in a TB sanatorium in Switzerland. (source)
TB = tuberculosis -- a serious and highly contagious type of lung infection

Tuberculosis had invaded both his lungs, it had begun eating his spine, and it had fractured the long bones of his legs. (source)
tuberculosis = a serious and highly contagious type of lung infection

At one Illinois mental hospital, new patients were dosed with milk from cows infected with tuberculosis, in the belief that only the undesirable would perish.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

And one of them—no one was ever sure who—brought tuberculosis.† (source)

But he contracted a tuberculosis of the spine when he was about six, when his parents were up in Aswan —the nanny didn't recognize how serious it was, he was taken to the hospital too late—he was a very bright boy, so I understand, personable too, but old Mr. Blackwell wasn't a man tolerant of weakness or infirmity.† (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

You'll want to see what you people have done to her with your damn tuberculosis.† (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

As he continued to grow sicker and sicker even at low altitude, the doctors postulated that his illness was perhaps not simple HAPE but rather HAPE complicated by tuberculosis or some other preexisting Pulmonary condition.† (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

Contracted tuberculosis winter '43.† (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

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I think she's got tuberculosis.† (source)

Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic.† (source) James McBride, The Color of Water, 1996

I've seen them all born alive, and not one lost to smallpox or tuberculosis.† (source)

Thrice more we were stopped, twice more I coughed up what looked like the bloody sputum of a woman with tuberculosis.† (source)

Died of tuberculosis in 1821.† (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The following year, his daughter, Fanny, died from tuberculosis.† (source)

During their courtship she became ill with tuberculosis.† (source)

We'll talk later about what heart disease means in a story, or tuberculosis or cancer or AIDS.† (source)

Tante Bep had tuberculosis.† (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

There was no way of reaching him when his mother, Chella, died of tuberculosis.† (source)

Now he had tuberculosis and was living in destitution in the ghetto in Otwock.† (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

On the other hand, no one ever learned about the visions of those who did not return, including the saddest of them all: those who had died as exiles in the tuberculosis pavilion, more from the sadness of the rain than because of the complications of their disease.† (source)

She was the second of three daughters and remembered how her younger sister had died of tuberculosis one winter; they'd buried her on Indian Knob Hill in the Lutheran part of the cemetery.† (source)

Many of the Romantics died young, usually of tuberculosis.† (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

She had to buy medicines because ("Don't tell Mama") she had been diagnosed with tuberculosis.† (source)

You'll end up dying of tuberculosis, like Spanish bullfighters, who are always either too hot or too cold."† (source) James Baldwin, Another Country, 1960

While full-blown tuberculosis normally took six months to cure, he said, I should be better in two months.† (source)

Because there were a few cases of tuberculosis in the prison, everyone had to get a periodic chest X-ray.† (source) Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life, 2002

Her father had tuberculosis and was coughing up blood, and there was no money for treatment.† (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

Anna Djvorak was convinced that the doctor had miraculously saved her son's life by not sending him to the tuberculosis sanatorium back in 1903.† (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977

Gold and silver mines were the dream of all adventurers: a mine could plunge you into abject poverty, kill you with tuberculosis, or make you a rich man overnight.† (source)

The outpatient clinics then took most of the day, except for a formal lecture to the nursing students on tuberculosis.† (source)

Have you ever contracted tuberculosis or other mycobacterial disease, or had a positive skin test for tuberculosis?† (source)

By early summer Mary Cranch, who suffered from what was probably tuberculosis, appeared to be dying.† (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

They were afraid of her disease as if it were fatal, like tuberculosis, but worse, much worse.† (source)

The folk in Auburn said Harriet had married him in order to take care of him, that even though he was a big, handsome, young man, he had tuberculosis.† (source) Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman, 1971

The Lincolns' three-year-old son Edward died of tuberculosis in 1850.† (source)

"Tuberculosis," Nathan said.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Since antibiotics lay far in the future, tuberculosis, which we called "T.B." or "consumption," was almost always fatal.† (source) Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982

He said his bout with TB had set him to pondering about mortality and the nature of the cosmos. (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005
TB = tuberculosis -- a serious and highly contagious type of lung infection

But they met up at a tb meeting in Salzburg, Austria. (source)

Dad escorted me back to the TB ward and introduced me to all of his friends. (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

tb and aids loomed over the new millennium. (source)

From then on, all tb patients in the catchment area received the full package of services. (source)

The new chief of who's tb division praised it in a letter to The New York Times. (source)

The mdr project was making progress with patients, and the Peruvian tb doctors had noticed. (source)

What about the belief that mdr was less virulent and contagious than regular tb? (source)

Peru had established its rigorous tb program, its model who program, only four years back, in 1991. (source)

The World Bank was planning a loan to try to stanch the tb epidemic in Russia. (source)

Farmer had said, "In a setting where there's a lot of tb?" (source)

He hadn't missed any doses of his tb drugs, however. (source)

I asked him a technical question about tb control, reciting an opinion I'd heard. (source)

That there might be "a tb All-Star Weekend." (source)

In most places, prisoners contract tb at higher rates than civilians. (source)

A young prisoner could contract susceptible tb and, through inadequate treatment, end up with mdr. (source)

He'd remember, a bit ruefully, telling Jim, "The one thing we don't need to do here is tb." (source)

Are you going to punish people for thinking tb comes from sorcery? (source)

Farmer called dots the most significant advance in tb control since the advent of antibiotics. (source)

Farmer asked the patient, a young man, if he disliked his tb medicines. (source)

Certainly, Joe was a likely target for tb. (source)

And he didn't have the classic symptoms of tb, which are fever, chills, and night sweats. (source)

So was Soros's foundation, for putting their tb project in political jeopardy. (source)

Before I say that, though, any exposure to anybody with tb? (source)

For places like Zaire, money to deal with tb and mdr-tb would have to come from elsewhere. (source)

In New York, Farmer and Goldfarb asked Soros to put up more money at once for treating tb in Russia. (source)

He went bed by bed through the tb hospital, the main hospital, the Children's Pavilion. (source)

But was treating mdr-tb really too expensive? (source)

An elderly man in treatment for pulmonary tb who makes me think of Ray Charles. (source)

Eventually her tb had been cultured and found to be resistant to four firstline drugs. (source)

For one thing, Peru hadn't used the same drugs during its period of chaotic tb control. (source)

Nearly half of all tb cases and most of the drug-resistant ones languished in the prisons. (source)

So he's hired him, as a tb "outreach worker." (source)

Then the lab had cultured his tb and found it resistant to several drugs. (source)

Fortunately, an array of good and inexpensive "first-line" tb drugs existed. (source)

But many members of "tb" had never heard of Farmer. (source)

A government clinic had treated her for tb, but she had relapsed. (source)

To lower the prices of the drugs, he had to show that a lot of tb projects would use them. (source)

We lingered in the hall of the tb department. (source)

We'd spend the week after that in Moscow on tb business, with a stop in Paris en route. (source)

They started arguing that the prices for second-line tb drugs ought to remain high. (source)

At least two million people a year die of tb. (source)

"One speech is for clinicians, how to deal with hiv and tb coinfection," he said. (source)

Farmer had some friends in "tb"—it was an old friend who had arranged this speaking engagement. (source)

A woman doctor said gravely, "We have lots of tb and no labs." (source)

Of 100,000 inmates sick with tb, perhaps 30,000 had mdr. (source)

He had courted the old tb warriors among them, and many liked him. (source)

Several had tb, including Alcante's father, who is still in therapy. (source)

In poor countries, tb was the most common proximate cause of death among people who died with aids. (source)

Of the several cases of tb in this family, only the father's was detectable by sputum smear. (source)

First, you perform what he calls "the distal intervention" and cure the family of tb. (source)

And I took them into the lab and I wrote, 'Paul Farmer, State tb Commissioner.' (source)

He wrote an angry letter to the tb managers. (source)

He was working now for the Soros Foundation on the tb epidemic in Russia. (source)

Not mainly, Alex said, in order to deal with tb but in order to prop up their crumbling system. (source)

So Farmer and Kim got some of what they hoped for from "tb" before the meeting even started. (source)

His body was riddled with TB and lung cancer when Lord Mountbatten, the last British viceroy of India, agreed that India would be divided at independence. (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

"I remember now," he said through his dreamy smile, "it was tuberculosis."† (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

In those days this was a death sentence as surely as tuberculosis had been.† (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

He was barely a year old, and the tuberculosis nearly killed him.† (source)

Tuberculosis was only predominantly a disease of the poor, Jim reasoned.† (source)

But treating and preventing HIV would also mean treating and preventing tuberculosis.† (source)

Farmer liked to say that tuberculosis made its own preferential option for the poor.† (source)

Tuberculosis had become the leading cause of death in the prisons, but not all were dying there.† (source)

I know tuberculosis comes from people coughing germs.† (source)

We're in infectious disease, and we don't think it's tuberculosis.† (source)

He included as partners some potential and former adversaries, such as who's tuberculosis branch.† (source)

"The Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease," he said, typing away.† (source)

The case study that followed told of a Haitian peasant who had died from tuberculosis.† (source)

Laura Keene died of tuberculosis on November 4, 1873, in Montclair, New Jersey.† (source)

You can carry tuberculosis for many decades; you can carry syphilis for a lifetime.† (source)

He even knew that Genet had been diagnosed with tuberculosis while in prison.† (source)

Upstairs in the house, Sally Adams was critically ill with tuberculosis.† (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Second thought, tuberculosis, alcoholism, some other chronic process.† (source)

Deepak had found a new prescription in my house for isoniazid, a drug used to prevent tuberculosis.† (source)

The cough, the fever, in all likelihood were her tuberculosis coming back.† (source)

I wasn't asking him about exposure to tuberculosis.† (source)

Tuberculosis didn't cause aneurysms like the one that killed her, but syphilis did.† (source)

Ross said, "It's not tuberculosis, but something else."† (source)

She had supposedly died of adrenal failure caused by tuberculosis.† (source)

She had a terrible disease, tuberculosis, which he had heard about.† (source)

I learned later that she died very young—of tuberculosis, I believe—and it saddened me terribly.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

She had tuberculosis years before in Cracow, but it went away.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

"I've lost a husband and a father already, and my mother is dying of tuberculosis.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

He established the first tuberculosis sanatorium.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.† (source)

In his breakthrough play A Doll's House (1879), he includes a neighbor to the Helmer family, Dr. Rank, who is dying of tuberculosis of the spine.† (source)

She still suffers from the effects of several diseases she contracted in the Congo, including schistosomiasis, Guinea worms, and probably tuberculosis.† (source)

He had gone across the river, hunting for a nutmeg tree to make a paste of nutmeg and fresh garlic for Chella, his wife, as she lay dying of tuberculosis.† (source)

Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Edgar Allan Poe, who in real life saw plenty of tuberculosis, gives us a mystery disease in "The Masque of the Red Death."† (source)

Black men, women, and children suffering with everything from dementia and tuberculosis to "nervousness," "lack of self-confidence," and epilepsy were packed into every conceivable space, including windowless basement rooms and barred-in porches.† (source)

Mother had tuberculosis you see, and they didn't know about contaminated air or keeping babies away from sick people."† (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

Deasy had gone home with tuberculosis.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

They used HeLa to test the effects of steroids, chemotherapy drugs, hormones, vitamins, and environmental stress; they infected them with tuberculosis, salmonella, and the bacterium that causes vaginitis.† (source)

She and her husband had managed to get their two small children to friends before their arrest, but she worried aloud all day about them and about Mr. Floor, who had tuberculosis.† (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

Of course it's awful when a person has a coughing fit that sounds like he's trying to bring up a whole lung, but the sufferer of tuberculosis often acquires a sort of bizarre beauty.† (source)

So many characters contracted tuberculosis in part because so many writers either suffered from it themselves or watched friends, colleagues, and loved ones deteriorate in its grasp.† (source)

Tuberculosis, on the other hand, was a wasting disease, both in terms of the individual wasting away, growing thinner and thinner, and in terms of the waste of lives that were often barely under way.† (source)

Dr. Rank's illness is uncommon only in terms of its location in the body; tuberculosis can settle in any part of the body, although the respiratory system is the one we always think of.† (source)

When, in the course of Justine, the first novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the narrator's lover, Melissa, succumbs to tuberculosis, he means something very different from what Ibsen means.† (source)

She was married to John Middleton Murry, a writer and critic, was friends with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence (in fact, she was the model, at least in part, for Gudrun in his Mmen in Love), produced a sizable handful of very lovely and accomplished stories, and died young of tuberculosis.† (source)

Prior to modern sanitation and enclosed water systems in the twentieth century, cholera was nearly as common as, much more aggressive than, and more devastating than tuberculosis (which was generally called consumption).† (source)

Yet very near the end of his life, only in his early forties and dying of tuberculosis, he pens this outrageously frank, open novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, about love and sex between members of two very different classes, between a peer's wife and her husband's gamekeeper, a man who uses all the Anglo-Saxon words for body parts and functions.† (source)

The years of military rule had exacerbated the chronic malnutrition, and tuberculosis had risen markedly in the region.† (source)

The tools for uncovering tuberculosis belong to an older era in medicine, and the diagnosis can be tricky, especially in someone with HIV.† (source)

He had congenital high blood pressure and mild asthma, which developed after he'd recovered from a possible case of tuberculosis.† (source)

Thanks in part to those antibiotics, tuberculosis had all but vanished from the rich parts of the world.† (source)

In May 1995 he flew to Boston, and Jim drove him to the Brigham, where the doctors diagnosed tuberculosis.† (source)

In Haiti, tuberculosis still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in Zanmi Lasante's catchment area had died from it since 1988.† (source)

Medical science reserves a special name for tuberculosis of that sort—multidrug-resistant tb, mdr by abbreviation.† (source)

Back in 1988, a woman from Zanmi Lasante's catchment area had died of tuberculosis while he was in Boston recovering from a badly broken leg.† (source)

The radiologists reported a possible right lower lobe infiltrate on his chest X ray—possible tuberculosis, they thought.† (source)

The twin pandemics of AIDS and tuberculosis raged on, of course, magnifying each other, in Africa and Asia, eastern Europe and Latin America.† (source)

A lot of the world's ranking tuberculosis experts had agreed to come to the meeting, including Arata Kochi, the head of who's tb program.† (source)

Naturally enough, after all his years in Haiti, he wondered if tuberculosis was a problem in Carabayllo.† (source)

Once, from a friend of a friend, I heard he was doing something notable in international health, something to do with tuberculosis.† (source)

Tuberculosis patients could consult private pulmonologists, but they had to pay for the visits and for the very expensive second-line drugs the pulmonologists prescribed.† (source)

For Farmer and Jim Kim and many others interested in the distribution of disease, tuberculosis vividly illustrated the great epi divide, its contours, its causes, its effects.† (source)

Farmer pulled a stethoscope out of the pocket of his rumpled black suit jacket and draped it over his neck as we entered a maze of narrow, concrete-walled corridors—the hospital's tuberculosis wing.† (source)

In the mornings, I followed Farmer from the courtyard, to e-mail, and then to his office—on the ground floor of the newest building, the Thomas J. White Tuberculosis Center.† (source)

Some put the case more plainly: "In developing countries, people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis usually die, because effective treatment is often impossible in poor countries."† (source)

Long before Farmer met her, tuberculosis of the spine had devoured pieces of her backbone—a case of Pott's disease, easily cured but it had gone untreated and was "burnt out."† (source)

Farmer and his staff of community health workers treated most tuberculosis patients in their huts and spent between $150 and $200 to cure an uncomplicated case.† (source)

Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.† (source)

And yet, because tuberculosis mainly afflicted the poor side of the epi divide, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight it.† (source)

In Carabayllo itself, the Socios workers found entire families sick and dying with what turned out to be genetically related strains of the disease—a phenomenon common enough that the health workers gave it a name, familias tebeceanas, tuberculosis families.† (source)

Back before Father Jack's death, while helping Jim on the health census, Farmer had asked the project director of Socios en Salud if drug-resistant tuberculosis was a problem in the northern slums of Lima.† (source)

The dynamics of tuberculosis make it nearly impossible for a person to acquire resistance to more than one drug at a time, but repeated improper therapy can select for increasingly resistant mutants and create strains resistant to any number of drugs.† (source)

He'd been invited to give a speech about tuberculosis in Chicago at the end of February—at the annual North American meeting of an old and distinguished organization called the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.† (source)

Tall trees stand beside courtyards and walkways and walls, artful constructions of concrete and stone, which mount the forested hillside, past an ambulatory clinic and a women's clinic, a general hospital, a large Anglican church, a school, a kitchen that prepares meals for about two thousand people daily, and, near the top, a brand-new building for the treatment of tuberculosis.† (source)

"My understanding," said Hiatt pleasantly, "is that my former student, Dr. Kochi, is thinking about control of tuberculosis, not just in 1998 and '99, because he recognizes that he's not going to control the problem worldwide, but is thinking about controlling the problem over the next decade, or decades."† (source)

Tuberculosis.† (source)

I was able to use the example of his work in many key fora around the world in the past few years, with the U.S. Congress, the who Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the White House, the U.S. Treasury, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, etc. When I worked with the Secretary General to help launch the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paul's work was a key example.† (source)

The purpose of evil was to survive it and they determined (without ever knowing they had made up their minds to do it) to survive floods, white people, tuberculosis, famine and ignorance.† (source) Toni Morrison, Sula, 1973

Severe reducing was thought to be the culprit behind an epidemic of fatal lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, among jockeys.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

And Paul Farmer persuaded national and international health authorities to make the clinic eligible for inexpensive supplies and drugs, including free medicines for AIDS and tuberculosis.† (source)

After the ceremony, Felicia and Hugo moved into the house on Palmas Street, which had been empty since Berta Arango del Pino's only daughter, Ofelia, died of tuberculosis.† (source)

I was groggy, but I concentrated on what he said: he had removed two liters of water from my chest and when the liquid was analyzed, a tuberculosis germ had been discovered.† (source)

Nor did she know that the cure for tuberculosis in 1903 was precisely the one most detrimental to the patients.† (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977

Neth had definitely been sickly and gaunt, but perhaps that had been from tuberculosis, parasites, or exhaustion.† (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

The dread of tuberculosis was in every home then, because there was not a family that had not lost one of its members to consumption, so Clara decided to go and fetch her.† (source)

In 1924 he funneled $150,000 into the establishment of the Charles S. Howard Foundation and built a home for children suffering from tuberculosis and rheumatic fever.† (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

The author and others had an organization, called Partners In Health, which wasn't just trying to build a little clinic as Deo once had in Sangaza, but had actual projects in a Peruvian slum and in a Russian prison, projects that aimed to stanch epidemics of drug-resistant tuberculosis -- to prove to the world that this could be done, and to teach the world how to do it.† (source)

Amid the buzz of the dragonflies and the croaking of the frogs, she told him how she had put banana peels and blotting paper in her shoes so she would develop a fever and had drunk ground chalk until she got a genuine cough, to convince the nuns that her lack of appetite and her pallor were the unmistakable symptoms of tuberculosis.† (source)

Somali superstition holds that burning a baby on the chest will prevent tuberculosis, so Edna constantly has to guard against mothers sneaking their newborn babies out of the hospital to burn them.† (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

"Undoubtedly consumption," Dr. Winthrop said to Thomas one day, using a delicate word for tuberculosis as he put away his stethoscope and thermometer.† (source)

What his mother had was tuberculosis.† (source)

Tuberculosis, pellagra, kwashiorkor, gastro-enteritis, and scurvy bring death and destruction of health.† (source)

When he was committed, it was discovered that he had tuberculosis and, as it turned out, the disease of his mind allowed the disease of his body to destroy him.† (source)

According to the Medical Officer of Health for Pretoria, tuberculosis kills forty people a day (almost all Africans), and in 1961 there were 58,491 new cases reported.† (source)

If you survived, and if enough engineers on the seniority ladder ahead of you keeled over with heart attacks or came down with tuberculosis or were scalded todeath in accidents, one day they would have to call you in and tell you that from now on you were going to be the man at the throttle.† (source) Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982

She is seriously ill from tuberculosis.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.† (source)

He thought he had tuberculosis and that he was going to die.† (source)

Katie had heard that Mrs. McShane was now in a sanatorium for incurable tuberculosis patients.† (source)

Besides his duties as a junior surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital, he now had to spend every Thursday across the city at the University of Hiroshima, to chip away at his doctoral dissertation on appendicial tuberculosis.† (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

And in addition they had parasites that got between the scales, and they had to be dusted or washed with mercurochrome; some had to be given inhalations of eucalyptus oil for their lung ailments, for snakes get tuberculosis.† (source)

We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is a cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery.† (source)

A woman named Satsue Yoshiki, who was thirty-five years old, recently cured of tuberculosis, and recently baptized, had been told to report for an interview at the Mukaihara church.† (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

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