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The TB time bomb

Sir, — This has reference to the Editorial ``The tuberculosis time bomb'' (June 13). The growing AIDS problem is shortening the fuse of the TB time bomb. AIDS is the main cause for the resurgence of TB in developed countries. If we could not control TB in the pre-AIDS era, it looks like an impossible task now. With the sinister boost that the disease is gaining from AIDS, India is poised to become one of the largest reservoirs of TB and AIDS, with an impending economic and demographic disaster.

In recent times, the middle and upper classes are also getting afflicted by TB, exploding the myth that affluent people are safely outside its consumptive clutches. Rich or poor, it is impossible to avoid breathing in TB organisms.

T. Rama Prasad,
Erode, T.N.

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