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According to World Health Organization estimates, India has the world's largest tuberculosis epidemic. [5] In 2020, India accounted for 26% of the incident TB cases across the globe. India has incidence rate of 192 cases per 100,000 of population. India accounted for 38% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people and for 34% of the combined ...
In 2011, India reported a 'totally drug-resistant' form of tuberculosis. [22] India is the highest TB burden country in the world in terms of absolute number of incident cases that occur each year. [23] TB primarily affects people in their most productive years of life.
A comparison of the genes of M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in humans to MTBC in animals suggests humans did not acquire MTBC from animals during animal domestication, as researchers previously believed. Both strains of the tuberculosis bacteria share a common ancestor, which could have infected humans even before the Neolithic Revolution. [17]
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 ...
Here's what we know about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas right now, plus how the infection spreads. Meet the expert : Thomas Russo, MD, is a professor and chief of infectious disease at the ...
[19] [20] Globally, the severe malnutrition common in parts of the developing world causes a large increase in the risk of developing active tuberculosis, due to its damaging effects on the immune system. [21] [22] Along with overcrowding, poor nutrition may contribute to the strong link observed between tuberculosis and poverty. [23] [24]
‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ will be published by Crash Course Books, an imprint from the popular Youtube Channel run by Green and his brother Hank
Scanning electron micrograph of M. tuberculosis. This is a bibliography of tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that generally affects the lungs. As of 2018, the World Health Organization estimated that 25% of the world's population was infected with the latent form of the disease. In its active form, it is one of the top 10 causes of death ...