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The AMA today voted to support federal legislation to increase resources for global and domestic tuberculosis (TB) control.

“About one-third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis, and drug resistant strains of TB are spreading around the globe,” said J. James Rohack, M.D., AMA board member. “About 10-14 million Americans are infected with latent TB. Together with the newest class of anti-TB drugs over 40 years old as well as the increase in multi-drug resistance, we need to have new tools to fight this killer disease.”

American Medical Association
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