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Mr Leong Weng (seated, left), who was treated for rifampicin-resistant TB in 2024, with his care team from Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
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SINGAPORE – In May 2024, a 36-year-old software engineer developed a persistent cough. Doctors prescribed antibiotics, but a few months later, he began coughing up coloured phlegm every day. He also found it harder to do his thrice-weekly runs, taking seven minutes a kilometre, instead of his usual six.
In January, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) and started a six-month course of antibiotics to treat it.
