‘Science Speaks’ Summarizes Discussion At Capitol Hill World TB Day Event

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Antigone Barton, senior writer and editor of “Science Speaks,” discusses remarks made by speakers at a World TB Day briefing on Capitol Hill last week hosted by the American Thoracic Society, Aeras, RESULTS, and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association. The speakers “discussed the new numbers, new plans, and old ways of confronting a modern public health crisis,” Barton writes (3/28).

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