Tuberculosis - fighting the great white plague
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Feb2009 (Volume) 21 (Number) 3
Classif
570 BIO
Subject
Diseases
Page
14-17
Authors
Merrick, Catherine
Contents
It takes a life every 10 seconds and has been dubbed the Great White Plague, but this is no AIDS epidemic, no newly emerged disease that medical science is still scrambling to control. So what is this plague and why has it proved so resistant to our efforts to eliminate it?