With risk on the rise, team examines the punishing costs of tuberculosis care across the globe

With risk on the rise, team examines the punishing costs of tuberculosis care across the globe

These are uniquely challenging times in the fight against the enduring and accelerating scourge of tuberculosis (TB)—an airborne illness caused by bacteria that kills more people than any other infectious disease despite the fact it's preventable and curable.

Centro de Estudios Tecnol Gicos in Alvarado, Veracruz, suspends acad mica activities for a case of tuberculosis.

The most deadly preventable infectious disease remains. Trump is to blame for the resurgence of tuberculosis.

John Green talks tuberculosis, health advocacy, new book

Author John Green discussed global health advocacy and his hands-on experiences with the severity of tuberculosis across the globe at the Milken Institute School of Public Health on Tuesday.  Green talked about the cost and availability inequalities that can limit access to health care for tuberculosis with Allegra Mbwetshangol, the president of the GW Public Health Student Association, and Partners in Health Associate Director of Health Policy …

REVIEW: “Everything is Tuberculosis” is way more relevant than it should be

In 1941, a magazine wrote that a cure for tuberculosis was something that was so far away as to practically be a dream. The cure was discovered just 12 years later. The revelation that humans are to predicting the future as elephants are to riding bicycles is one of the many takeaways of John Green’s newest—and slimmest—book, “Everything is Tuberculosis,” but after reading it, I had real and much-needed hope that the future may not have TB in it…

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