Kate Womersley

TB is back with a vengeance

A third of the world is now infected with a disease that was recently thought no longer threatening, says Vidya Krishnan

A patient suffering from advanced TB is visited by his wife in New Delhi, in the largest specialist TB hospital in Asia. [Getty Images]

  • Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

    Vidya Krishnan

    Public Affairs, pp. 320, £19

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