The infection spreads to the brain or spinal column.” Others “suffer a sudden, uncontrollable hemorrhage, leading to a quick ...
Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...
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 ...