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Lisa Jarvis: An urgently needed TB shot could democratize vaccines

Tuberculosis surrendered the title of the world’s deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 struck, but it reclaimed that terrible distinction last year. As with COVID, a new vaccine could go a long way to sharply curtailing the disease, which killed about 1.4 million people a year before the pandemic and increased…

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TB checks continue as calls grow for new vaccine

Health authorities continue to battle an outbreak of tuberculosis on South Australia's Indigenous lands amid fresh calls for more funding to fight the disease.

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TB kills 75,000 children in Africa every year: how this can stop

Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. Half of the world’s 30 highest TB burden countries are in Africa. In many of these countries, TB is the leading cause of death across age groups, but especially among children. Globally, TB is the leading cause of death by any single…

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TB in children isn't being controlled - it's key to fighting the disease for everyone else

World TB Day on March 24th will commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The Conversation

When Edinburgh residents undertook radiation screenings in return for free homes and cars

Once branded an "incurable scourge", tuberculosis rates dropped off a cliff in the post-war era in part thanks to a mass radiography campaign that saw millions of Brits line up to be x-rayed.

Edinburgh Live

New TB kit to curb spread

The Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) has signed an MoU with AEC Healthcare on the transfer of DMSc-TB FastAmp (TB-LAMP) kit production technology, aiming to support tuberculosis (TB) control.

Bangkok Post

'Huge coincidence' surrounding death of RAF nurse after tuberculosis diagnosis

She died 24 hours after receiving the diagnosis

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Washington woman with tuberculosis wanted by police for refusing treatment, failure to isolate

Authorities in Washington State are set to arrest a woman who has been avoiding tuberculosis treatment and isolation for more than a year.

Tribune News Service

Health authorities declare tuberculosis outbreak on the APY Lands after 10 cases diagnosed

Health authorities are working to contain an outbreak of tuberculosis on the APY Lands in South Australia's far north, with 10 cases of the preventable disease diagnosed so far.

ABC News

SA health concerned over tuberculosis outbreak

South Australian health authorities have expressed concern over a spate of tuberculosis cases in the state's Indigenous lands.

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As COVID-19 grabbed the world’s attention, Texas’ efforts to control tuberculosis slipped

Responding to COVID-19 has taken so much attention and energy that some public health workers believe it pushed tuberculosis off people’s radar.

The Texas Tribune

BCG: how a century-old vaccine is being used against everything from cancer to autoimmune diseases

In March 2020, as the UK was preparing to go into lockdown, two new trials were posted on the clinicaltrials.gov database. The researchers were proposing that BCG, an old vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), should be tested for its protective effect against COVID.

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Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against tuberculosis – new study

Tuberculosis, humanity’s greatest infectious killer, is caused by bacteria that usually affect the lungs but can also affect many other organs in the body. In 2021, around 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) and 1.6 million people died from the disease.

The Conversation

Davos 2023: Climate change leads to more malaria, tuberculosis up in a recession

Climate change is increasing malaria infections, the executive director of the world's biggest health fund said in Davos on Monday.

Reuters

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Karnal reports 4507 cases of tuberculosis this year

KARNAL: The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise in the district, leading to a challenge for the government to make the country TB-free by 2025.

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Emily Brontë's death needs to be radically reimagined – an expert explains

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.

The Conversation

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong

Effective tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been available for the past 60 years. But TB remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. It ranks above HIV and AIDS and others. This is partly because of the impact of HIV co-infection among TB patients in places like Africa…

Reuters

Less and late: UK gives $1 billion to global disease fight

The British government said on Monday it would contribute 1 billion pounds ($1.18 billion) to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, more than six weeks after other countries made their commitments.

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Audit reveals Torres Strait clinicians face deadly dilemma in PNG spillover of tuberculosis cases

Inconsistent Queensland health policies have contributed to children dying from tuberculosis in the Torres Strait, an audit has found.

The Guardian - UK

Dying too young: focus on communicable diseases takes toll in South Africa’s slums

Diseases such as strokes and diabetes now cause most deaths in South Africa but the health system is still focused on tuberculosis and HIV

The National (Scotland)

Scottish university develops AI technology to spot lung diseases

A SCOTTISH university has developed technology it has said could be key in helping to ease the winter pressures on hospitals.

The Independent UK

Disease spotting AI ‘could be key to cutting hospital pressures’

The University of the West of Scotland said a tool developed by researchers at the institution could detect lung diseases in a matter of minutes.

Daily Mirror

DNA detectives 'unearth' identity of mystery long-dead vampire with unusual burial

John Barber, reburied so he couldn't feed on the living, suffered from tuberculosis which causes sweating, weight loss, swollen neck and coughing up blood

Daily Mirror

Man wakes from coma with incredible new art skills he never had before brush with death

Moe Hunter, 38, has left doctors baffled after developing amazing new art skills since awaking from a coma that he entered while suffering from meningitis and tuberculosis

Radio France Internationale

Tuberculosis, a forgotten disease still endemic in South Africa's Cape Town

Zanyiwe Mavebenwane, from Cape Town in South Africa, hasn’t seen her eldest daughter in two months. It’s the fifth time she has had tuberculosis, and is receiving long-term care in hospital. The unemployed mother of five runs a soup kitchen a few times a week and is taking care of…

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