The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

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For centuries, we have known that tuberculosis is a social disease. It thrives on poverty and social factors such as malnutrition, poor housing, overcrowding, unsafe work environments and stigma.

Tuberculosis is on the rise for the first time in decades after Covid-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality.

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Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public health efforts in the U.S. and globally, tuberculosis cases had been steadily falling for decades.

A case has of the potentially fatal infection has been confirmed following a routine TB screening test carried out for precaution.

The prevalence of HIV positivity among Tuberculosis (TB) patients in Karnataka is the third highest in the country after Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, according to data from National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) outlined in the India TB Report 2023.

Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor that increases the incidence and severity of tuberculosis. Also, DM and TB co-infections adversely affect TB treatment outcomes in a patient.