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Cultural Traditions Are Fueling the Spread of a Rare Tuberculosis Strain
Poverty is also a factor, but customs like eating raw meat and drinking blood are not helping.
Why Smokers Are More Susceptible to Tuberculosis
Researchers used genetically-modified zebrafish to explore why smokers are more likely to contract the bacterial infection.
Some Parts of London Have Higher Tuberculosis Rates Than Eritrea and Iraq
London is the TB capital of western Europe, with seven people per day developing symptoms. The disease is strongly linked to deprivation, disproportionately affecting poor and marginalized groups.
More Evidence the UK's Badger Cull Isn't the Best Way to Prevent TB in Cattle
Another statistical model suggests that culling badgers to prevent bovine TB might not be the best way forward.
Dingball - 'Everybody Grows Up and Lives Happily Ever After'
It's the final comic of Patrick Kyle's run of comics on VICE. TB is finally an adult, and he looks like one. Resolution!
Dingball - 'TB and Dingball Wish They Were Better People'
TB is down in the dumps so Dingball teaches him how to be happy.
Dingball - 'Dingball and TB Draw Their Feelings'
T.B. and his weird duck friend decide to draw their inner worlds. What they express is, unsurprisingly, stupid.
Dingball - 'Farting the Babysitter's Moustache Off'
TB and Dinball have decided to play a trick on their sleeping babysitter. What a kooky comic.
Giant Rats Are Helping Doctors in Mozambique Sniff Out Tuberculosis
A Belgian aid organization is training cat-sized African pouched rats to use their keen sense of smell to detect the presence of tuberculosis in human mucus samples.
How Canada’s Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Families
It took years for an Innuit girl to be returned to her family, because no records were kept of where she came from or who her family was.
How the Canadian Government's Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Inuit Families
In the 50s, the Canadian government shipped thousands of Inuit people infected with tuberculosis from their homes in the Arctic to sanitariums in southern Canada without explaining their whereabouts to their families. We interviewed members of the...