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TB in Africa: global report shows successes, but Nigeria and DRC remain important hotspots

The World Health Organization’s 2024 Global Tuberculosis report reveals a sobering reality. Formidable challenges remain in the fight against the world’s most infectious disease: persistent poverty in high burden countries; increased rates of infection among vulnerable populations; the inability to find and treat all missing cases; and funding shortfalls.

The Conversation

Tuberculosis Cases Hit Record High: WHO

A record 8.2 million new tuberculosis cases were diagnosed worldwide last year, the World Health Organization said -- the highest number since it began global TB monitoring in 1995.

International Business Times

Over 8 Million New Cases Reported As Tuberculosis Resurges As Top Killer: WHO

Tuberculosis is making a resurgence, infecting an estimated 8.2 million people in 2023; the highest surge in new cases since 1995, a WHO report reveals.

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WHO says 2023 saw the highest number of tuberculosis cases on record

TB likely returned to being the world’s top infectious disease killer after being replaced by COVID-19

The Independent UK

How Goa is fighting TB among high-risk groups

Fifty-four-year old Suresh has been drinking alcohol since he was nine. He ran away from his house in Bengaluru and landed in Goa. He has been working in a bar ever since.

Newslaundry

In a breakthrough, Indian scientists develop unique method to treat brain tuberculosis

In a remarkable achievement, Indian scientists have developed an effective treatment method to tackle tuberculosis.

The Times of India

Badger cull may have increased bovine TB risk in neighbouring herds – study

England’s controversial eradication scheme may have caused higher rates of disease in surrounding areas, research shows

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"I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me

Brian May's show highlights the Queen guitarist's four-year battle to rid a farm of bovine tuberculosis without harming badgers

Louder

10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.

LiveScience

Study finds strains of tuberculosis that are most infectious

According to a recent study evaluating how various strains migrate across mixed populations in cosmopolitan cities, the chances of an exposed person becoming infected with TB vary depending on whether the human and the bacterium share a hometown. Read further on Dynamite News:

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TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23% occurred in Africa.

The Conversation

Why does plague keep plaguing humans?

Throughout human history, different infectious diseases have taken the mantle of “most deadly disease” infecting humans. In the past century alone, the human population has experienced many pandemics: COVID, HIV and various influenza outbreaks – to name a few. Some have lasted for centuries and persist today, such as tuberculosis.…

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South Africa drops probe of J&J after it agrees to lower price of TB drug and withdraws patent

Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices, after South African authorities opened an investigation into the conglomerate

The Independent UK

Three animals that can detect disease in humans

When it comes to accurately diagnosing a disease, you might think you need expensive, high-tech machinery and equipment capable of looking deep beneath the skin at what’s going on in the body. But while these high-tech implements certainly are incredible, they aren’t the only instruments capable of detecting disease. In…

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Woman, 24, dies on Qantas flight from Melbourne just before takeoff

Manpreet Kaur was feeling unwell before boarding the flight and reportedly died from tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis triggered giant, crusty wart to sprout on man's hand

Around 20% of cases of tuberculosis affect organs other than the lungs, and some can cause warty plaques on the skin.

The Conversation

Kafka 100: a parade of men with no appetite from a writer consumed by thoughts of nourishment

There is a rather potent image of failure which recurs in the short stories and novels of Franz Kafka, the Czech writer who died of tuberculosis 100 years ago. The image is of a young man brimming with self-assurance who, without warning, is assailed by some irreproachable authority. He protests,…

The Guardian - UK

Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

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California city declares public health emergency after tuberculosis outbreak exposes 170 people

The Long Beach city council identified at least 14 cases of the disease

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170 people 'likely exposed' to tuberculosis in Long Beach outbreak

Health officials have warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California.

Medical Daily

Tuberculosis Outbreak: 1 Dead, 9 Hospitalized In Long Beach; Officials Declare Health Emergency

An investigation revealed that approximately 170 people have likely been exposed to TB.

WEKU

Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

The Hindu

Plight of tea garden workers becomes poll issues in Dibrugarh again

Health is also a major concern in tea gardens with at least one or two tuberculosis patients in most families and the outbreak of gastro-enteritis is common in these estates, said CPI-ML leader Subhas Sen, who works with tea garden workers.

The Times of India

India recorded 3.5 crore hepatitis B and C cases in 2022: WHO report

The findings of a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) have posed a big challenge for India. As per the report, India accounted for the second-highest number of cases of hepatitis B and C in 2022 after China, with 3.5 crore infections. According to the WHO's 2024…

International Business Times

Asia-Pacific Gets New Weapon In Fight Against Drug-resistant TB

A faster and vastly more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis is being rolled out in the Asia-Pacific region, raising hopes of a "new era" in tackling one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.

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