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Covid-19 set back the battle against tuberculosis. But it also points the way forward
Earlier this year, Antônio Carlos Lombardi Peixoto went to his doctor complaining of fever and an endless cough. He thought it was something to do with his diabetes. Instead, he was told he had a disease he had never heard of: tuberculosis.
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