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More information on tuberculosis is available at these websites recommended by the U.S.News & World Report library:

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American Lung Association
The American Lung Association provides a basic overview of what TB is, what the symptoms are, who gets it, and how it's treated. It offers newsletters on lung health via E-mail, a hotline for questions, and a searchable database of local chapters for support.

Clinical Trials
The U.S. National Institutes of Health provides a list of clinical trials currently recruiting patients as well as those in the planning stages.

Medline: Tuberculosis
The National Library of Medicine's guide to TB includes the latest news on studies, diagnosis and treatment information, a link to state TB control offices, and much more.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
This site, sponsored by NIH, discusses TB research, gives links to scientific publications, provides graphical explanations of TB, and archives NIAID news releases on the disease.

Stop TB Partnership
From its website: "The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem and ultimately to realize a world free of TB. It comprises a network of more than 500 international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, and nongovernmental and governmental organizations that have expressed an interest in working together to achieve this goal.

World Health Organization
The WHO's Stop TB Department site includes a fact sheet, worldwide statistics on TB back to the 1990s, and the WHO's "Global Tuberculosis Control" report.