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Catching Breath Lougheed Kathryn With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide,…
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. Forty-thousand years ago, our ancestors set off from the cradle of civilization on their journey towards populating the planet. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its skills.
Using our own immune cells as a Trojan Horse to aid its spread, it's come up with clever ways to avoid being Tuberculosis hitched a lift and came with us, and it's been there ever since; waiting, watching, and learning.The organism responsible, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has had plenty of time to adapt to its chosen habitat--human lungs--and has learned through natural selection to be an almost perfect pathogen.