Tag: Tb

New Delhi: A total of 21.5 lakh TB cases were reported in 2018, an increase of 17 per cent over 18 lakh in 2017, thus showing an improvement in reporting and subsequent treatment, as per the Annual India TB Report for 2019 released on Thursday. As per the report, the sustained efforts of the government […]

New York: Researchers have found that people who test positive with immunologic tuberculosis (TB) skin or blood tests rarely develop the disease. It is because the infecting organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is likely dead, wiped out naturally by people’s immune systems, a new study suggests. “The National Institutes of Health and other nonprofit organizations spend millions […]

Geneva: Despite a steady progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) across the world, global targets for its prevention and treatment will likely be missed due to insufficient funding and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to a latest World Health Organization (WHO) report. The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2020 released on Wednesday said that between 2015 and […]