1.   The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.

2.   A major Harvard University report that raises the specter of a global tuberculosis epidemic has become the battleground on how best to fight the deadly disease.

3.   A tuberculosis epidemic carried away both his parents and then his grandmother.

4.   --In Pennsylvania, a suit charged that state prisoners were threatened by a tuberculosis epidemic, and there was no medical screening.

5.   Judges have issued orders to stop all kinds of savagery in prisons, from rape to ignoring a tuberculosis epidemic.

6.   The four attorneys general agreed that lawsuits over rape, tuberculosis epidemics and the like were not frivolous.

7.   The Senate also passed, by unanimous consent, legislation that would increase spending to combat international AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics.

8.   Mother-child health has sharply declined in Russia, and the country is grappling with a serious tuberculosis epidemic, especially in prisons.

9.   Sixteen countries are responsible for a global tuberculosis epidemic that will cause more deaths this year than ever before, the World Health Organization says.