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The resurgence of ‘ticking timebomb’ tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is set to overtake Covid-19 as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, with medical experts warning its resurgence represents a “ticking timebomb” healthcare emergency.

The Week

Deadly ancient disease overtaking Covid as warning UK facing ticking timebomb

Covid-19 is being replaced by Tuberculosis (TB) as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, as medical experts warn of the threat it poses to the UK.

Daily Record

Woman with tuberculosis is arrested for refusing to isolate for a year

Woman known only as ‘V.N.’ was placed in a specially-equipped detention room at the Pierce County Jail in Washington state three months after a judge issued a warrant for her arrest

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A woman is in custody after refusing tuberculosis treatment for more than a year

A judge in Tacoma, Wash., approved a civil warrant for the woman's arrest after 16 requests for intervention from local health officials. Police observed the woman board a bus and visiting a casino.

WEKU

Tuberculosis is a global health threat

If public health infrastructure isn’t strengthened, experts say the risk of more TB cases and deaths will increase worldwide, a Yale University physician writes. The U.S. should build on the momentum developed during COVID-19 to address TB.

Chicago Sun-Times

Woman dies of deadly tuberculosis after doctors began treating TB too late

Carrianne Franks, RAF nurse, contracted TB while working at a London hospital, with doctors missing opportunities to test her for the disease and diagnosing her with Covid-19

Daily Mirror

Treatment was 'too late' for RAF sergeant nurse who died from 'missed' tuberculosis

Carrianne Franks died months after she became ill

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TB testing stuck in the previous century, and waiting for change

In Nature journal, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan and Puneet K. Dewan recommend for tuberculosis using molecular tests with non-sputum samples in a decentralised facility that can test for multiple conditions.

The Hindu

African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases -- a giant step

Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg virus in Guinea or Equatorial Guinea; cholera in Malawi; malaria and tuberculosis are among them.

The Conversation

Tuberculosis rates rocket amid Ukraine, Sudan conflicts

Disease surges as health officials try to address the accessibility of treatments and new vaccine trials.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine, Sudan conflicts fuel alarming surge in tuberculosis

Top U.N. officials and health industry leaders are trying to tackle an alarming surge in tuberculosis, which is now killing more people worldwide than COVID-19 or AIDS

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Vaccine researchers team up with US

Thailand’s National Vaccine Institute (NVI) has joined hands with the US Vaccine Research Centre (VRC) for vaccines against tuberculosis, including Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.

Bangkok Post

Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment centre opened at Christian Medical College, Ranipet

Ranipet Collector S. Valarmathi inaugurated a Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DRTB) treatment centre at the newly-opened Christian Medical College (CMC) campus in Ranipet on the Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48) on Wednesday.

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New surge 'could see 10,000 daily cases for a short time only'

The number of daily Covid-19 cases is likely to reach 5,000-10,000 during a new wave but numbers probably will drop quite quickly after that, says Dr Nitipatana Chierakul, head of the Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Division at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital.

Daily Mirror

Woman with TB jailed after ignoring order to isolate or get treatment for a YEAR

A woman in Tacoma, Washington, has been detained in jail after she was seen leaving her home, riding a bus and visiting a local casino despite having tuberculosis

Daily Mirror

Badger cull death toll reaches 200,000 as wildlife experts warn of 'empty setts'

Figures quietly slipped out while MPs are away from Westminster lay bare the extent of the decade-long killing programme aimed at curbing bovine tuberculosis

ABC News

COVID-19 cases on the rise in South Australia, peak expected in coming days

COVID-19 cases continue to climb in South Australia with the latest modelling predicting an extra 600 cases daily in coming days.

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Victory over big pharma opens door to cheaper tuberculosis drugs

India’s patent office turns down bedaquiline extension to Johnson & Johnson, clearing the way for generic versions

Tribune News Service

Tuberculosis cases are up for the second year in a row, CDC warns

Tuberculosis cases have increased for the second year in a row, according to a March 2023 report from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While incidence of tuberculosis within the U.S. declined substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of the disease are now returning to pre-pandemic levels.

Tribune News Service

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…

AAP

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.

The Conversation

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…

The Conversation

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.

Edinburgh Live

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.

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