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Urgency lacking as TB passes Covid as biggest killer: Expert
GENEVA: Following gargantuan global efforts against Covid-19, tuberculosis is once again the world's biggest infectious killer, a top expert has told AFP, lamenting the lack of focus on rooting out TB.Mel Spigelman, president of the non-profit TB Alliance, hailed the swift and dramatic progress to rein in the Covid pandemic, with a vast array of safe and effective vaccines, tests and treatments developed in the space of two years.“But the juxtaposition with TB is pretty stark,“ he said in a recent interview.Tuberculosis, once called consumption, was the world's biggest infectious killer before the arrival of Covid-19, with 1.5 million people dying from the disease each year.With global Covid

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