United Press International
| 8 months ago
Millions of people are alive worldwide today due to tuberculosis treatment and control, officials at the World Health Organization in Switzerland said. "In the space of 17 years, 51 million people have been successfully treated and cared for...
Inter Press Service
| 8 months ago
The reported 1.4 million deaths related to the disease last year means that TB remains the second largest killer among infectious diseases. The WHO's new Global Tuberculosis Report reinforces that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is an escalating...
paging dr. gupta
| 8 months ago
More than 20 million people with tuberculosis (TB) are living today because of successful care and treatment, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2012 found that access to care has...
The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Alamy Twenty million lives have been saved from tuberculosis over the past 17 years, but the battle against one of the deadliest scourges of mankind is now on a knife's edge, as drug-resistant strains spread, according to the World Health...
GMA News
| 8 months ago
Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB program, said the report, based on data from 204 countries and territories, paints a mixed picture of progress in the fight against TB, noting that "51 million people have been cured and 20 million...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The number of people who caught tuberculosis last year inched downward according to an estimate by the World Health Organization, but the agency warned that drug-resistant strains are still spreading. In a new report issued Wednesday, the U.N. agency...
