Undernutrition accounts for a large number of TB cases in India, says study

Undernutrition accounts for a much bigger share of India’s counts of new tuberculosis patients than hitherto assumed, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. The researchers have estimated that undernutrition contributes to 9,02,000 of India’s 2.64 million annual new TB cases, 40% higher than the earlier estimate of 6,55,000 cases attributed to undernourishment.