Mark Earnest and John A. Sbarbaro, in The Sciences (Sept.-Oct. 1993),New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Along with the rise of acquired immunodefi- ciency syndrome (AIDS) and human immuno- deficiency virus, there has been an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in recent years. The newspapers report ominously that today's TB is drug resistant. Yet all but "a minuscule fraction" of the 27,000 active TB cases today are treatable, note Earnest and Sbarbaro,...