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Scientists unravel secrets of how tuberculosis bacteria beat our bodies' fail-safe mechanism



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Published Date: 16 September 2008
By John von Radowitz
SCIENTISTS say they have cracked the secret of how the tuberculosis bug survives and spreads inside the lungs.
They hope the discovery will lead to new ways of fighting TB, a condition that currently causes more deaths worldwide than any other potentially curable infection.

According to a study by Dr Heinz Remold, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, the ...



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