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...time, in a state of semiconsciousness, with fantastic dreams of myself floating in and out of the cell through the iron-barred window as if I were an ethereal spirit. One morning the young man came back and said, ''You don't have hepatitis. It's probably TB. A lot of prisoners have TB. You may go to the hospital to have a fluoroscope.'' The waiting room of the prison hospital could only be described as a scene of hell, full of emaciated human beings in tattered clothes, with pain and agony clearly written on their wasted faces, waiting patiently...
...foundation has already funneled more than $6.6 billion to global health initiatives—meaning that HIV, TB, and infectious disease researchers like Edwards have a new funding source of unprecedented size...
...restricting its grantees’ profits, and requiring that they distribute to developing countries, the Gates Foundation is lowering financial barriers that keep medicines like Edwards’ TB spray and Yale’s Zerit beyond the reach of the world’s impoverished...
...Harvard TB vaccine spray is an early breakthrough in that effort. It seems likely that the spray will soon travel from Edwards’ lab north of the Yard to South Africa—one of MEND’s bases—and beyond...
...meantime, about 9 million more people will fall ill with TB in the next year, putting their unvaccinated family members at risk...