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According to a 2013 review, tuberculosis elimination will require not just treating active tuberculosis but also latent cases, and eliminating tuberculosis by 2050 worldwide is not possible, although great reductions in infections and deaths are possible. [3] Addressing poverty is a further requirement for eliminating tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis, which is caused by bacteria that attack the lungs or other parts of the body, can spread through the air when a person with an active case coughs, sneezes or speaks.
An Egyptian mummy in the British Museum – tubercular decay has been found in the spine. Tuberculosis has existed since antiquity. [14] The oldest unambiguously detected M. tuberculosis gives evidence of the disease in the remains of bison in Wyoming dated to around 17,000 years ago. [15]
Rates of the highly contagious infection began to tick back up in 2019, but a third of the new cases identified in the past four years were detected in just the first three months of 2024, the CDC ...
Per the CDC, tuberculosis was a close second leading cause of death, killing 194 of every 10,000 people in 1900, mainly concentrated in dense urban areas where the infection could more easily ...
During HIV infection, IFN-γ production is decreased dramatically which leads to an increased risk of developing reactivation or reinfection by M. tuberculosis in these HIV/TB patients. [ 6 ] Those with TB and HIV also have reduced CCRD+ CD4+ T-cells at mucosal sites and reduced numbers of TB specific CD4+ T-cells leading to increased ...
The U.N. health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by tuberculosis in 2021, a 4.5% rise from the year before. WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected ...
An effort has been made for several years to eliminate syphilis from the US. [11] The rate of infection decreased through the 1990s, and in 2000, it was the lowest since reporting began in 1941, leading the US Surgeon General to issue a plan to eliminate the disease from the country. It has been staging a comeback, however, increasing each year ...