Lil' Kim squanders money on missiles while his malnourished people die of TB... WHO: 5,000 North Koreans die annually from tuberculosis Oct. 29, 2015 - Total deaths due to tuberculosis in North Korea have declined by 1,700 since 2013, but the disease still persists with 110,000 current TB patients.
New, simple TB blood test... Simple Blood Test Diagnoses People With Active TB February 19, 2016 - Test is easier than current methods for detecting the lung disease, and has potential to find and treat many more people, researchers say
TB free by 2030... WHO: Tuberculosis Can Be Ended by 2030 March 22, 2016 In advance of World TB day (March 24), the World Health Organization is calling for collective global action and more money to support TB control strategies to end this scourge by 2030.
DR-TB adds to India's tuberculosis menace... Drug resistance adds to India's tuberculosis menace 23 Mar.`16 - After three years of battling tuberculosis, a disease that claimed the lives of his father and younger brother, Sonu Verma, a patient in northern India, hopes a cure for his illness may be within reach.
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New TB initiative spots latent carriers... New Initiative Spotlights TB Prevention in Latent Carriers May 23, 2016 — UNITAID, a global health initiative, is taking the old adage “prevention is better than cure” to heart. To that end, it has just launched a new multi-million dollar initiative to finance new treatments that can prevent the onset of full-blown tuberculosis in hundreds of millions of people globally living with latent TB. See also: World Unprepared To Cope With Emerging Infectious Diseases May 23, 2016 — The director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, warns the world is not ready to cope with the threats posed by emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Chan told some 3,500 delegates attending the annual World Health Assembly they must work together to overcome global health threats.
Complacency Has Allowed TB to Explode... Global Efforts to Control TB Are Falling Short October 22, 2016 - This year's U.N. report on tuberculosis was a shocker. The World Health Organization's Global TB Report 2016 said the spread of the disease is larger than previously estimated, and that global efforts to beat it are falling far short of what is needed.
DR-TB Higher than Thought in West Africa... Drug-Resistant TB Higher than Thought in West Africa November 03, 2016 - Researchers have found the number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in West Africa is greater than thought.
Artemisinin can be used to treat both malaria and TB... Study: Ancient Chinese Herb Aids Fight Against TB December 21, 2016 - Scientists have found that a drug used to treat malaria may also aid in the treatment of tuberculosis. The ancient Chinese herb, artemisinin, has the potential to shorten how long it takes to treat TB, something that could also fight drug resistance to antibiotics.
So. Africa sees rise in XDR-TB cases... Extensively Drug-Resistant TB on the Rise in South Africa January 18, 2017 | Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, the most dangerous form of TB, is on the rise in South Africa, according to a new study. So-called XDR-TB does not respond to four or more drugs typically used to treat tuberculosis, making the condition potentially lethal.
Who knew that the answer to TB could be right under our feet?... A Bacterium Found in Soil Could Fight Tuberculosis March 06, 2017 - Scientists are developing an antibiotic from a microorganism found in soil to fight the tuberculosis bacterium. As TB becomes increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics, soil could hold the key to new drugs against this global killer.