disease | Helter Skelter Magazine https://helterskelter.in/label/disease/ Fresh Voices and New Writing From and About India Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:38:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 Throwback Tuberculosis https://helterskelter.in/2021/06/throwback-tuberculosis-india-covid-pandemic-airborne-diseases/ https://helterskelter.in/2021/06/throwback-tuberculosis-india-covid-pandemic-airborne-diseases/#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:55:11 +0000 https://helterskelter.in/?p=13525 For much longer than COVID-19, India has had another airborne disease to contend with. It still affects large sections of the population, but it has seemingly been long-neglected.

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