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When TB Was a Death Sentence: An Excerpt From ‘The Remedy’

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Dr. Robert Koch’s celebrated discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium was the first step in taming a ferocious killer. An excerpt from Thomas Goetz’s The Remedy, about the quest for a cure.

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