Items tagged with TB epidemiology

Genomic study reveals signs of TB adaptation in ancient Andeans (post)

People have inhabited the Andes mountains of South America for more than 9,000 years, adapting to the scarce oxygen available at high altitudes, along with cold temperatures and intense ultraviolet radiation. A new genomic study suggests that Indigenous populations in present-day Ecuador also adapted to the tuberculosis bacterium, thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.

Need for increased global attention on maternal TB: Global TB Report inclusion (post)

Nicole Salazar-Austin, co-chair of the Maternal and Child Tuberculosis Working Group of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), explains why TB notifications for persons during maternal and postpartum must be included in the WHO Global TB Report and UN High-Level Meeting targets.

Next steps in eliminating TB in the Americas (post)

Globally, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death by infectious disease, topped only by COVID-19. Elimination of tuberculosis by 2030 is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. As an airborne disease that has infected about a quarter of the global population, tuberculosis control as a specific goal related to good health and wellbeing recognises that this is an international humanitarian crisis. Groups at high risk include homeless people, healthcare professionals, immigrants, Indigenous people, and incarcerated people. However, from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge to eliminate tuberculosis became even more prominent. The upsurge of cases and deaths affected many locations, including the Americas and the Caribbean. According to Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), this region represented 3% of the global burden in 2020.

Latent TB infection remains a public health threat in Bangladesh (post)

Experts emphasize that raising awareness and promoting a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce the risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), which continues to pose a major public health threat in Bangladesh.

TB prevention in England 2021 (post)

The UK Health Security Agency released a report presenting people with TB disease notified to the enhanced surveillance scheme in England and aiming to describe the epidemiology of TB in England up to the end of 2021. It is the sixth in a series of 7 reports that will describe different aspects of TB incidence, treatment and prevention in England.

Nearly half of TB cases in prisons worldwide go undetected (post)

In the first global assessment of TB among incarcerated people, a new study found consistently high TB case rates and low case detection in prisons, suggesting the need for health organizations to increase efforts to reduce the spread of TB among this high-risk population.

TB on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality (post)

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.

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