Research on early fur trade sheds new light on how tuberculosis persists in populations
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 15:37
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Caitlin Pepperell and her colleagues at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California have been studying how tuberculosis (TB), the deadly lung disease, is able to persist, or hide, in sparse populations for years, only to become rampant once the right conditions emerge.