MOST of those who lived through the worst period of tuberculosis (TB) in the 1950s would remember of the dangers and fear brought about by the disease.
TB, which is caused by the microbe Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was the number one killer in Malaysia from 1945 to 1957. Even today, it ranks second only to HIV as a leading cause of death among infectious diseases according to last year’s World Health Organisation (WHO) Global TB Report.
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