Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 25, 2004

Tuberculosis creates cavities visible in x-rays like this one in the patient's right upper lobe.

Tuberculosis is the most common major infectious disease today, infecting one-third of the world's population with nine million new cases of active disease annually, resulting in two million deaths, mostly in developing countries.

Hopes that the disease could be completely eliminated have been dashed since the rise of drug-resistant strains in the 1980s. (more...)

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