US EditionGlobal tuberculosis diagnoses rise to a record, but deaths fall, WHO reports
- About 8.3 million people globally were reported as newly diagnosed with Tuberculosis in 2024, according to the WHO.
- The WHO noted that the new numbers represent 78% of the estimated number of people who actually fell ill last year.
- In 2024, Tuberculosis deaths globally decreased to 1.23 million, down from 1.25 million in 2023.
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The World Health Organization calls for greater efforts to eradicate tuberculosis. According to a WHO report published in Geneva, the number of new infections has fallen slightly over the past year, but tuberculosis remains one of the most deadly global infectious diseases.
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide increased again last year, surpassing the total record of 2023, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday.
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has stressed that new cases of tuberculosis have declined for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, but has claimed that this disease caused more than 1.23 million deaths in 2024, which he has described as "unconceivable for a disease that can be prevented and cured".
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