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  • Mr. Weetjens says he became interested in tuberculosis a few years ago after reading a World Health Organization report about the rapid spread of the disease and learning that TB-infected saliva had a tar-like smell that could aid diagnosis.

    The Newest Recruit In the Fight on TB Frances Robinson 2011

  • And rising above the coughs and hacks of the TB-infected was a madman laughing somewhere down the narrow corridor.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

  • According to the same federal guardians of national security who place six-year-old kids and infirm grandmothers on the airlines '"no fly" lists while waving a TB-infected traveler through customs with no questions during an international alert, a group of evil men with all the intellect of a five-year old planned to blow up the airport by setting fire to a fuel depot several miles away.

    Quote Of The Day 2009

  • I think I should let the medical experts talk about epidemiology, but because XDR has emerged out of a vast TB-infected population, my reason for choosing tuberculosis as the subject of my TED wish became absolutely compelling.

    James Nachtwey: Raising Awareness About TB 2008

  • A Homeland Security official has just told me that they have now discovered that the passport of this TB-infected man was indeed swiped at the Champlain, New York, border crossing.

    CNN Transcript May 31, 2007 2007

  • - Canadian border, and a homeland security official says the TB-infected man may possibly have willfully deceived border officials.

    CNN Transcript May 30, 2007 2007

  • Our chief medical correspondent was in the operating room, observing, as doctors in Colorado removed the TB-infected part of Andrew Speaker's lung.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2007 2007

  • If untreated, a TB-infected person could infect between 10 to 15 people a year, said Piot.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • So far, HIV sufferers in sub-Saharan Africa have been hardest hit, said the report, "but a crisis also is looming in Asia," home to the majority of the world's TB-infected people.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • TB-infected badgers are seen as prime conduits for TB in cattle, prompting Queen guitarist Brian May to attack what he called "an apparently insatiable lust to take revenge".

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

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