A cure for tuberculosis has been known for almost 90 years, yet almost nine million people contract the disease every year and it kills 1.4 million people annually. Even though the estimated number of people with TB is declining slowly, the disease is still second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer due to a single infectious bacterium or virus. Drug resistant TB is on the rise and present in almost every country, according to the World Health Organisation.
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