Humans have been battling tuberculosis since the Stone Age. But only in the last century has real progress been made against the disease. A vaccine, first used in humans in 1921, is still in use around the world today. And a series of antibiotics, beginning with streptomycin in the 1940s, has proven effective in treating infections.
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Melvin Sanicas is Program Officer and Global Health Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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