The number of tuberculosis cases has fallen by 18 percent since
2000, but the completely curable infection now kills as least as many
every year as the AIDS virus, the World Health Organization said
Wednesday.
It's because countries are not spending enough
money to treat people infected with the highly infectious disease, which
takes weeks or months of daily antibiotics to eradicate.
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