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TB is back with a vengeance

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Vidya Krishnan

Public Affairs, pp.320, 19.95

If you were a teenager before 2005, one reminder of tuberculosis in British life is that small circular scar on your bicep. Maybe you’ve explained to your children why it’s there, if you ever knew. The BCG is no longer a routine vaccination in the UK, a revision which signalled to many that TB was over.

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