TB--the silent killer crossing our border
Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the CDC. Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are ...
Assessing India’s tuberculosis burden: Data
According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2024, India had the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in 2023. Over half the cases ...
The Biden-Harris open border is inviting yet another horror: tuberculosis
The Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies have cleared the way for a silent killer to make its way across the ...
Tuberculosis case confirmed at Elmhurst University, 2 more suspected; school offering free TB tests
An Elmhurst University student was confirmed to have tuberculosis last week, and two more students have suspected cases, ...
Radio Tamazuj19h
South Sudan, partners mark two decades of partnership with the Global Fund
South Sudan and health humanitarian partners held a celebration to mark two decades of partnership and support by the Global ...
Seven women and a front porch brainstorm gave birth to 100 years of saving animal lives
Amy Lyman Phillips opened her home – porch, actually – to seven women concerned about abandoned animals.. They decided to do ...
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Discussion| 56,000 people died of Tuberculosis in SA last year
Globally, there were 1-point-2-5-million TB deaths. To meet the WHO and UN milestones to end the TB epidemic, priorities ...
Opinion
McCAUGHEY: Tuberculosis a silent killer crossing America’s border
A staggering 89% of TB patients in the Big Apple are foreign-born. The Flushing/Clearview areas of Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and the Lower East Side of Manhattan are the neighbourhoods most ...
Findings indicate 10% of children in high-burden tuberculosis settings may develop the disease by age 10
An estimated 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis disease (TB) and 200,000 kids die from TB worldwide each year, but the risk of developing TB infection and disease throughout childhood remains ...
Department of Health confirms Alice student contracted tuberculosis
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — An Alice High School student has tested positive for tuberculosis, the Department of State Health ...
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TB reclaims title of deadliest infectious disease. That's an 'outrage' says WHO
Dislodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each ...
TheCable1d
Nigeria, seven countries accounted for two-thirds global TB burden in 2023, says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria, with 4.6 percent of cases, and seven other countries, account for more than ...