On the left is a boy with miliary tuberculosis after two months of chemotherapy.  On the right is the same boy at completion of treatment.

This boy's tuberculosis might have been prevented with BCG vaccination which he had not received.  His tuberculosis might also have been prevented had he been given preventive therapy when tuberculosis was diagnosed in a person living with him in the same household.

Fortunately, the diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis was made and his disease successfully treated with modern chemotherapy.

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