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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Tuberculosis kills more than a million people a year. It’s the world’s deadliest infectious disease. And for most of its history, the standard diagnostic hasn’t changed much since the 1880s: a phlegm sample examined under a microscope. The test has real problems. Not everyone can produce phlegm. Children, elderly […]\n\nThe post The new TB diagnostic that could replace 150 years of microscope testing first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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