Close-up of a 1930s iron lung, with text describing its manufacturer.

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World TB Day 2013: A Fearsome Disease, Hope for New Vaccines

The image of bacterial time-bombs in the lungs is frightening. Even more so, perhaps, when you consider that for most of history there was no effective treatment for TB. Or, that increasingly tuberculosis bacteria are becoming resistant to the treatments that are currently available.