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Wrong again on TB

Robert Daniels, a US citizen kept in solitary confinement in Arizona for almost a year after being diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB, turns out to have the less serious multi-drug-resistant (MDR) form. The finding overturns a diagnosis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also misdiagnosed Andrew Speaker as having XDR TB and banned him from flying home for treatment. He also had MDR TB.

Let’s call it Frank

Images from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft have revealed that Saturn has yet another moon – its sixtieth. For the time being the 2-kilometre-wide chunk…

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