It belongs to the same family of bacteria as those that cause tuberculosis and Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Doctor Ruhli says researchers used this method to study changes in the tuberculosis bacteria from two thousand year-old mummified tissue.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Also in the top ten causes were infections, including tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS, as well as drowning and fire-related deaths.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Life expectancy rates climbed, because doctors and scientists developed effective ways to prevent or treat diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid,diphtheria,and influenza.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The Global Fund has approved proposals for more than nineteen billion dollars to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Health experts predict that soon, more people will die from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The report also says about six million people with active tuberculosis are being treated for the disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Health experts predicted the number of people who die from cancer will soon be greater than deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Infectious animal tuberculosis, for example, has established itself as a threat to lions in southern Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Along with H.I.V., South Africa also has high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in two thousand two.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In addition,almost half a million people who were infected with tuberculosis and with H.I.V.also died.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Tuberculosis killed one million three hundred thousand people around the world in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

As a matter of fact, one of the major contributors to tuberculosis going up in several countries is because diabetes is going up -- and obesity.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

We can,for example, given the rate of investment, eliminate malaria as a public health problem, we can prevent millions of more HIV infections and also in tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

"Clearly one of the major implications of something like this would be for use in developing countries: maybe for testing HIV, maybe for testing for tuberculosis, or perhaps even malaria."

VOA: special.2010.12.06

Virginia Clemm Poe had suffered from tuberculosis for many years.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

An estimated one-third of all people are infected with tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

PEPFAR,the U.S.President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are the main contributors.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Ruhli notes researchers used that technique to study the evolution of the tuberculosis bacteria from 2,000-year-old mummified tissue to modern-day strains.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"My strong belief is that it may in the long run save more money, that we're preventing a lot of tuberculosis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

He says the relatively large number of patients who are not being treated properly for tuberculosis is fueling the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

And also that the rates of tuberculosis" - that those rates were cut in half by starting earlier."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

His parents died of tuberculosis. So when Bolivar developed a chronic cough, fever and weight loss, the same bacterial infection was suspected.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09