Items tagged with TB epidemiology
India continues to be worst affected by TB: WHO report (post)
New Delhi: India continues to have the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, the Global TB Report 2017 released by World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday (October 30) revealed.
Kenya’s TB burden gets worse (post)
Kenya has been listed as a multidrug-resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) high-burden country, joining eight other nations grappling with the deadly disease globally, a United Nations report shows.
Occupational TB risk very low for health care workers (post)
Health care workers showed an extremely low risk for occupational tuberculosis infection in a low-incidence setting, according to recently published findings.
Exploring the threat of MDR-TB in the United States (post)
MDR-TB remains relatively rare in the United States. The most recent MDR-TB data, from 2015, include 88 cases, representing about 1% of persons with TB disease. Eighty-five percent were foreign-born persons, and nearly 82% were individuals without a history of TB disease. These statistics emphasize how global control will undoubtedly affect progress toward national TB elimination.
Improved diagnostics fail to halt the rise of tuberculosis (post)
Seven years ago, the global community of researchers, health-care workers and activists battling tuberculosis was euphoric. A landmark 2010 trial showed that a new genetic test was highly effective at diagnosing TB, prompting hopes that countries could soon finally control the disease, which killed 1.45 million that year. The World Health Organization (WHO), promptly endorsed the test, called GeneXpert, and promoted its roll-out around the globe to replace a microscope-based test that missed half of all cases.
The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (post)
An understanding of the trends in TB incidence, prevalence, and mortality is crucial to tracking of the success of TB control programmes and identification of remaining challenges. A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases assessed trends in the fatal and non-fatal burden of TB over the past 25 years for 195 countries and territories.
Closer look at household contacts finds more TB cases (post)
Proactive checks of household members improves on standard passive case finding
At nine deaths an hour, TB is winning in India’s largest state (post)
Low detections, a faulty system of diagnosis and a health department in denial are contributing to an alarming death rate from the disease in India's largest state.
The challenges of preventing bovine tuberculosis (post)
Bovine tuberculosis destroys livelihoods and is hampering efforts to achieve the End TB Strategy goal of tuberculosis elimination by 2030. Sophie Cousins reports on efforts to stamp out this neglected infectious disease.
South Africa: Landmark survey to assess TB (post)
South Africa's first survey to assess the incidence of tuberculosis in the country has been commissioned by the national Health Department, and will enrol an estimated 55 000 participants.
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