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COVID-19 triggered stigma, discrimination may keep testing rate low: study

‘Education and need for psychosocial intervention to deal with the negative impact of the stigma on individuals and families affected by COVID-19 continues to be vital,’ says Dr. Padmapriyadarsini

The Hindu

Healthy nurse, 30, dies of tuberculosis 24 hours after tragic final texts to mum

Sgt Carrianne Franks feared she'd die as the disease was ravaging her body. The 30-year-old was diagnosed with TB in her final hours

Daily Mirror

Large tuberculosis cluster emerges in Singapore

Singapore has imposed mandatory screening for tuberculosis in an apartment block after about 170 people tested positive for the infectious disease.

Bangkok Post

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Tuberculosis warning symptoms as one person dies from TB and three others infected

Here is everything you need to know about TB and its symptoms.

Daily Record

Former PMs urge government to increase spending on infectious diseases after Covid setbacks

Gordon Brown and David Cameron among 15 former world leaders demanding proper response to ‘reclaim the lost gains from Covid-19’ in global fight against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

The Independent UK

Three people diagnosed with tuberculosis after student dies of disease at Welsh university

Three people have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) after coming into close contact with a student who died of the disease in a Welsh town.

Evening Standard

Health warning: One person dies from TB as three others infected in UK outbreak

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person and is a potentially serious condition

Daily Mirror

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HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people died.

The Conversation

Community involvement aiding battle against TB in Assam

Government sets goal of reducing tuberculosis infection rate from 217 per lakh in 2015 to 44 per lakh by 2025

The Hindu

Inhaled vaccine for COVID-19: The pandemic accelerated decades of research leading to jab-free vaccine now in human testing

No one wanted COVID-19. The pandemic has created misery, death and hardship, and it isn’t finished yet.

The Conversation

Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions

Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500

The Guardian - US

EMPE to set up TB testing kits facility

Hyderabad: Sweden-headquartered EMPE Diagnostics plans to invest Euro 25 million (approximately 208 crore) in setting up its global production facility for tuberculosis diagnostics kits at Genome Valley with a capacity to manufacture 2 million kits per month.

The Times of India

Creepy abandoned hospital near Edinburgh filmed by urban explorer

The East Fortune Hospital was closed for good in 1997, after serving a psychiatric hospital and a tuberculosis ward - but entrance to the abandoned building is not recommended by police.

Edinburgh Live

Davos booster for $18 billion fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

A global health fund has raised a third of the $18 billion it says is needed to reverse setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic and combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

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Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study

Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, such as HIV or COVID. Our new study shows…

Daily Record

Dundee University awarded £5million for 'life changing' killer disease research

The huge windfall will go towards combating tropical diseases including malaria and tuberculosis.

The Conversation

Friday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. On commission, and under the eye of the public, he painted the giant Queen Elizabeth for the 1954 ‘Royal Visit’ and the giant Captain Cook (with map of ‘New Holland’) for the 200th ‘celebrations’. These lines, read on their own,…

The Conversation

Excessive mortality of young adults: a natural trait?

The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood until approximately the age of 10. It then begins a steady, exponential increase that continues throughout adult life. This U-shaped curve of age-specific death rates suggests that the risk of…

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India planned to eliminate TB by 2025, but it's estimated half a million Indians are still dying from it every year

In India in 2021, an estimated 504,000 people died from tuberculosis, or TB. That’s almost one per minute. More than a quarter of the estimated TB cases worldwide are in India.

The Times of India

Nine new TRUNAAT machines for early diagnosis of tuberculosis in Indore

INDORE: State government has installed nine TRUNAAT machines in health facilities including rural ones in the district for molecular diagnosis of presumptive tuberculosis cases for early diagnosis.

Tribune News Service

Despite fears of bird flu, tuberculosis, Kansas lawmakers vote to ban mask mandates

Mask mandates would no longer be allowed in Kansas under a bill the Legislature sent to the governor's desk Friday.

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