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Or you could be careful and not get infected in the first place. Great post again, Carlos, but perhaps how HIV has re-awakened TB in the world could be another post.

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Glad to see someone pointing out that we have multiple technologies that could eventually skip the marrow transplant, a lot of the ‘debunking the cure’ articles miss or ignore that.

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Re-awakened? TB is prevalent in poor communities where I live and has been for some time, without a local HIV epidemic.

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Believe it or not, TB was pretty much eradicated in many areas until HIV. Not all gays/iv drug users live in poor communities.

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I didn’t say anything about gay men or IV drug users. I was just pointing out that while ‘many areas’ have been TB free for some time, there are places in North America where it still runs rampant because nobody knows, or cares to know.

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I didn’t say anything about gay men or IV drug users. I was just pointing out that while ‘many areas’ have been TB free for some time, there are places in North America where it still runs rampant because nobody knows, or cares to know.

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Believe it or not, TB was pretty much eradicated in many areas until HIV. Not all gays/iv drug users live in poor communities.

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Re-awakened? TB is prevalent in poor communities where I live and has been for some time, without a local HIV epidemic.

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Glad to see someone pointing out that we have multiple technologies that could eventually skip the marrow transplant, a lot of the ‘debunking the cure’ articles miss or ignore that.

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Or you could be careful and not get infected in the first place. Great post again, Carlos, but perhaps how HIV has re-awakened TB in the world could be another post.

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