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Tuberculosis Replaces Covid As Top Infectious Disease Killer, Says WHO
Tuberculosis replaced COVID-19 to become the top cause for infectious disease-related deaths in 2023, according to a World Health Organization report published on Tuesday, highlighting the challenges in the global effort to eradicate the disease.
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Tuberculosis Firmly On Rise, 14% Up Deaths In Last 2 Years: WHO
Tuberculosis has rebounded after years of decline, killing an estimated 1.6 million people in 2021, up 14 percent in two years, new World Health Organization figures showed Thursday.
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India Notifies 24.04 Lakh TB Cases, 79,144 Deaths In 2019: Annual Report
India notified the highest number of 24.04 lakh tuberculosis cases last year as against an estimated 26.9 lakh cases by WHO, indicating that around three lakh patients missed out from the national TB programme, according to an annual report on the disease released on Wednesday.
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Aspirin Can Aid In Fight Against Tuberculosis: Study
India has the world's highest burden of TB, with 27 per cent of all global cases and over 30 per cent of all deaths worldwide.
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Prisoner Dies In Gurgaon Jail, Family Alleges Mystery Death
An undertrial inmate at the Bhondsi jail in Gurugram died under mysterious circumstances, a family member alleged, but doctors blamed it on tuberculosis (TB).
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WHO: TB Remains World's Deadliest Infectious Disease
TB deaths have decreased over the past year, with an estimated 10 million people having developed TB and 1.6 million deaths, including among 300,000 HIV-positive people, in 2017.
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India Witnessed Maximum Number Of TB Deaths In 2016
Though the numbers have dipped this year, India continues to notify maximum number of TB deaths in the world.
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India Has Most Number Of TB Deaths Among Children, Shows Study
London: India has the most number of child deaths due to tuberculosis, according to a Lancet study which found that over 55,000 children died from the disease in the country in 2015. Tuberculosis (TB) is thought to have affected more than one million children under 15 worldwide in 2015. Diagnosis of TB in children can be challenging, partly due to ...
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Tuberculosis Grips Karnataka, 837 New Cases
In the state, 837 new cases of tuberculosis have been detected in a single week starting July 17 by the Karnataka government's active case finding initiative.
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In Mumbai, TB Deaths Spark Data Dispute
By Swagata Yadavar and Brenda Marbaniang/ IndiaSpend.org Mumbai: India’s richest municipal corporation has denied nonprofit Praja Foundation’s assessment — made from the corporation’s own data — that 18 people die of tuberculosis every day, even as Praja Foundation claims the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no way of knowing ...
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NGO Says 18 Mumbaikars Die Of Tuberclosis Every-day
A Mumbai based NGO has said in a study that 18 Mumbaikars die of TB every-day and further stated that the drop-out rate for the disease's treatment is increasing at an alarming rate.
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In Its War Against Tuberculosis, Why India Should Use Private Pharmacies
Swagata Yadavar/IndiaSpend.org India has over 850,000 private pharmacies or chemists nationwide; yet, only nine per cent of them have been engaged in efforts to control tuberculosis (TB), according to a January 2017 paper published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice and Policy. The paper, ‘Engagement of the private pharmaceutical sector fo...
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Drug Resistant TB - What Should You Know
Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...
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Is Tuberculosis A Dangerous Disease?
World TB Day is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cau...
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Drug Resistant TB - What Should You Know
Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...
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Tuberculosis Replaces Covid As Top Infectious Disease Killer, Says WHO
Tuberculosis replaced COVID-19 to become the top cause for infectious disease-related deaths in 2023, according to a World Health Organization report published on Tuesday, highlighting the challenges in the global effort to eradicate the disease.
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Tuberculosis Firmly On Rise, 14% Up Deaths In Last 2 Years: WHO
Tuberculosis has rebounded after years of decline, killing an estimated 1.6 million people in 2021, up 14 percent in two years, new World Health Organization figures showed Thursday.
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India Notifies 24.04 Lakh TB Cases, 79,144 Deaths In 2019: Annual Report
India notified the highest number of 24.04 lakh tuberculosis cases last year as against an estimated 26.9 lakh cases by WHO, indicating that around three lakh patients missed out from the national TB programme, according to an annual report on the disease released on Wednesday.
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Aspirin Can Aid In Fight Against Tuberculosis: Study
India has the world's highest burden of TB, with 27 per cent of all global cases and over 30 per cent of all deaths worldwide.
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Prisoner Dies In Gurgaon Jail, Family Alleges Mystery Death
An undertrial inmate at the Bhondsi jail in Gurugram died under mysterious circumstances, a family member alleged, but doctors blamed it on tuberculosis (TB).
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WHO: TB Remains World's Deadliest Infectious Disease
TB deaths have decreased over the past year, with an estimated 10 million people having developed TB and 1.6 million deaths, including among 300,000 HIV-positive people, in 2017.
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India Witnessed Maximum Number Of TB Deaths In 2016
Though the numbers have dipped this year, India continues to notify maximum number of TB deaths in the world.
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India Has Most Number Of TB Deaths Among Children, Shows Study
London: India has the most number of child deaths due to tuberculosis, according to a Lancet study which found that over 55,000 children died from the disease in the country in 2015. Tuberculosis (TB) is thought to have affected more than one million children under 15 worldwide in 2015. Diagnosis of TB in children can be challenging, partly due to ...
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Tuberculosis Grips Karnataka, 837 New Cases
In the state, 837 new cases of tuberculosis have been detected in a single week starting July 17 by the Karnataka government's active case finding initiative.
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In Mumbai, TB Deaths Spark Data Dispute
By Swagata Yadavar and Brenda Marbaniang/ IndiaSpend.org Mumbai: India’s richest municipal corporation has denied nonprofit Praja Foundation’s assessment — made from the corporation’s own data — that 18 people die of tuberculosis every day, even as Praja Foundation claims the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no way of knowing ...
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NGO Says 18 Mumbaikars Die Of Tuberclosis Every-day
A Mumbai based NGO has said in a study that 18 Mumbaikars die of TB every-day and further stated that the drop-out rate for the disease's treatment is increasing at an alarming rate.
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In Its War Against Tuberculosis, Why India Should Use Private Pharmacies
Swagata Yadavar/IndiaSpend.org India has over 850,000 private pharmacies or chemists nationwide; yet, only nine per cent of them have been engaged in efforts to control tuberculosis (TB), according to a January 2017 paper published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice and Policy. The paper, ‘Engagement of the private pharmaceutical sector fo...
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Drug Resistant TB - What Should You Know
Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...
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Is Tuberculosis A Dangerous Disease?
World TB Day is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cau...
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Drug Resistant TB - What Should You Know
Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and India has the maximum number of cases of this deadly but curable and treatable disease. The World Health Organizations Global Tuberculosis Report in 2016 estimates that there are 79,000 cases of MDR-TB or Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. This is becoming a serious problem and a big ...
