BY KELLY FARLEY One third of the world’s population is infected with a latent form of it.1 Without treatment, 50% of those with the active form will die.2 We have a cure. And yet every day 5,000 people die of tuberculosis (TB).2 Background TB is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.3 A … Continue reading Tuberculosis: Returning to the Disease that Never Disappeared
BY SARAH SPAULDING Throughout much of known human history and prehistory, tuberculosis (TB) has surged and receded along a time scale that challenges much of the accepted scientific understanding of typical epidemic cycles of infectious diseases. Written records of TB appear in Greek literature dating as far back as 460 BCE, with Hippocrates’ description of … Continue reading Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
BY KEVIN CHEN Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection in the world.1 The prevalence of TB is 660 cases per 100,000 people, and the incidence of TB is 437 cases per 100,000 people.2 This is unacceptably high when compared to other developing countries in the East Asia and Pacific … Continue reading Southeast Asia: Regional Incidence of Tuberculosis in Cambodia
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