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Episode one eighty three – part three

Tuberculosis is often thought of as an illness we have long ago defeated. From the early literary depictions of TB as “consumption” to how TB changed fashion Vidya Krishnan weaves a compelling narrative regarding how the plague of “the past” affected common surgical practices such as hand-washing to how TB has not actually been eradicated, especially as it exists drug resistant in the poorer communities of Mumbai.