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U.S. Should Provide More Leadership In Finding TB Vaccine, Opinion Piece Says
Tuberculosis deserves an effort as "substantial" as the one mounted against swine flu "to develop a new vaccine," David McMurray, a TB expert at Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, writes in a Houston Chronicle opinion piece. "Since April, ... nearly one million men, women and children have died from TB, compared to 4,200 who have died from H1N1 flu globally. Why didn't you see any headlines? Because 98 percent of the nearly two million people who die each year from TB live in the developing world, in places like Kenya ... Yet TB continues to be a problem in [the U.S.] as well because in an age of globalization, germs cross borders without a passport," McMurray writes.
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