Top scientists from across the country gave a call for putting an end to the prevalence of the ‘silent killer’ called tuberculosis (TB), which had shown an increasing trend in these COVID years.
TB is a serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs and is spread through aerosols when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, in her message, underscored the need to speed up clinical trials for vaccines in the making and also diagnostics. She was addressing a webinar on “TB - Silent Killer: understanding the disease, dynamics and diagnostics and treatment”, organised by the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS) on Thursday.
