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Tuberculosis is back to being the leading infectious disease killer across the globe, surpassing COVID-19, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization.. Nearly 8.2 million ...
WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected with drug-resistant TB, 3% more than in 2020. ... patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018 ...
Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [26] [19] Journalists, [27] mathematicians, [11] epidemiologists, [28] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [29] according to their expertise, to arrive at a truer number of the actual cases and deaths. The aim of this is to ultimately ...
India bears a disproportionately large burden of the world's tuberculosis rates, with World Health Organization (WHO) statistics for 2011 giving an estimated incidence figure of 2.2 million cases for India out of a global incidence of 9.6 million cases. [1] Tuberculosis is one of India's biggest health issues, but what makes this problem even ...
COVID-19 Pandemic spread to Uttar Pradesh in March 2020. While the World Health Organization praised the UP government for its contact tracing efforts, [1] there were several other issues in its management of the pandemic, including under reportage of cases by the government, [2] vaccine shortages [3] and dismal conditions of COVID-19 hospitals.
In the United States, Native Americans have a fivefold greater mortality from TB, [197] and racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 88% of all reported TB cases. [198] The overall tuberculosis case rate in the United States was 2.9 per 100,000 persons in 2023, representing a 16% increase in cases compared to 2022. [198]
The COVID-19 virus has not been detected in drinking water. [82] Conventional water treatment (filtration and disinfection) inactivates or removes the virus. [82] COVID-19 virus RNA is found in untreated wastewater, [82] [22] [83] [a] but there is no evidence of COVID-19 transmission through exposure to untreated wastewater or sewerage systems ...
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was reported on 7 March 2020.. The largest single-day spike (36,987 cases) was reported on 13 May 2021 and Tamil Nadu now has the fourth highest number of confirmed cases in India after Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka.