How the Other Half Suffers
The infection spreads to the brain or spinal column.” Others “suffer a sudden, uncontrollable hemorrhage, leading to a quick ...
The fight against TB was frozen in time, until now. See its future.
Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...
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Deadly Diseases
An ancient disease, tuberculosis has been found in the skulls ... Directly Observed Treatment Short-course, or DOTS, is the conventional procedure for delivering drugs so health care workers ...
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Breathing easier with drug-resistant TB solutions
10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), with 1.5 million cases leading to death. Despite being a preventable and curable disease, TB is the world’s top infectious killer. Multidrug ...
World Health Organization warns of possible tuberculosis surge because of USAID cuts
Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...
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Tuberculosis vaccines — an update
Tuberculosis (TB), a disease which is both curable and preventable ... The WHO has initiated the directly observed therapy (DOTS) campaign in many regions, but so far this programme has not ...
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What to know about Tuberculosis
The person who has contracted the disease has been on a recovery ... “The active TB case that we have has been on our DOT which is our therapy for quite some time so it’s not a new case ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...