Paul Farmer

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

American Educator

Daniel Akaka

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

American Politician

Tom Frieden

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

American Public Servant

Luis Alberto Urrea

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Mexican Poet

Paul Gosar

It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.

Simone Weil

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

French Philosopher

Max Heindel

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

Danish Celebrity

Dinah Sheridan

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

English Actress

Thiago Silva

I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.

Brazilian Athlete

Michael York

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

British Actor

Tuberculosis is a severe health condition, often implying a long and serious struggle.

Serious Illness

Remember, tuberculosis is an infectious disease; it can spread among people if not controlled.

Contagious Nature

While TB can affect other body parts, it primarily attacks the lungs, suggesting breath-related symptoms.

Lungs Focus

 reach them with better medication. It would give us an unfair advantage against battling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other epidemics. Over time, we would hope it would become a new platform for economic transactions, lifting millions of people out of poverty. In the developed world and the emerging world,

Andreas Raptopoulos: No...

 will be important for Karina's research thank you perfect thanks very good okay that was a good sample and what is it that you're specifically looking for with these micro bacteria for example the agent that can cause tuberculosis him often that's a very common germ that

Getting a Whale Breath...

 and he had a very difficult form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. All of the gurus in the world, the global health gurus, said it is not cost-effective to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. It's too complicated. It's too expensive. You just can't do it. It can't be done.

Doesn't everyone deserve...

 But there's another angle to this as well -- you can take vaccines that currently don't work and get them over that line and get them protective. And certainly in the world of vaccines that can be important. Let's consider the big HIV, malaria, tuberculosis.

Mark Kendall: Demo: A...

 uh they they they lasted for a long period of time so do we just have to accept that we have to just deal with the novel coronavirus for quite a while and and make peace with that in the past certainly people did um tuberculosis killed one in seven

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 DNA analysis is even possible in some relatively well-preserved ancient remains. That's helping us understand how diseases like tuberculosis have evolved over the centuries so we can build better treatments for people today.

What can you learn from...

 She was an AIDS orphan being handed across different extended families to be cared for. She herself was suffering from HIV; she was suffering from tuberculosis. I met her in a field, she was ragged, she had no shoes.

Wiring a web for global...

 tuberculosis research life generally was getting better and better for Americans knowing that germs cause disease was a significant component of that

When Cities Were...

 lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters

How I taught rats to...

 he was his his life was virtually over his tuberculosis that had started at the age