'I was shocked': A Malaysian lecturer's Tuberculosis (TB) experience


Every morning, Dr Mohd Usman has to take his TB medications around the same time without missing a single dose, or else he will have to start the entire six-to-eight-month regimen all over again. — Photos: Dr MOHD USMAN MOHD JUNAIDI

It all started last September (2023) with a nightly low-grade fever that would come and go.

For two months, senior lecturer Dr Mohd Usman Mohd Junaidi tolerated the “warm” feeling,

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