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One person contracts TB every 20 seconds [1]

One person in the world is contracting tuberculosis after every 20 seconds and nearly 250,000 people in Pakistan contract lung TB every year.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2008
Dawn [2]
Tags:
Health [3], Tuberculosis [4]
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