The Boston Globe, June 10th, 1993
BERLIN As the number of people infected with the AIDS virus climbs relentlessly around the world, the AIDS epidemic has taken on the characteristics of a slow plague. Uniquely in the annals of medicine, this disease now threatens to awaken a second deadly scourge -- tuberculosis, which, though it was nearly conquered in the United States by the mid-1980s, is again rising dramatically. TB is now the most common secondary infection associated with AIDS worldwide, and in the United States new strains of TB are emerging that are resistant to nearly all the antibiotics that customarily work against...
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