MANILA, Philippines - The World Health Organization (WHO), in a report released recently, revealed that for the first time the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year worldwide is declining.However, while the 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control Report showed that the number ...
Using a mathematical model that brings together data from multiple sources, it estimated that by 2040, 32.5 percent of TB cases in Russia, 12.4 percent in India, 8.9 percent in the Philippines, and 5.7 percent in South Africa would be multidrug-resistant, or resistant to more than one of th...
The bacteria spreads through the air when infected people cough, sneeze or spit. The infection prospers in crowds, spreading to people in close reach. Nearly a dozen tuberculosis cases—all genetically linked—were traced to California Grand Casino in Pacheco over the past five years, according t...
Eight countries accounted for two-thirds of new TB cases in 2022: India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the biggest challenges of treating drug-resistant TB has been getting patients to take the full course of their...
The 2014 rate among foreign-born persons represented a 42.0% decrease from the rate in 2000. In 2014, 55.3% of foreign-born persons with TB originated from five countries: Mexico (1,268 TB cases [20.6%]), the Philippines (745 [12.1%]), Vietnam (498 [8.1%]), India (472 [7.7%])...
In1993,duringtheEasternRegionalMeetingoftheIUATLDheldinBangkok,Thailand,theheadof thePhilippineTBControlServicegaveareportonthestatusandprospectsofTBcontrolinthe Philippines.Whilethisreportdrewtheapplauseofthedelegatesfromothercountries,theFilipinosin thegroup,mostofwhomwerenotingovernmentservice,wereshocked.Manycould...
In a 2008 report by the WHO, the proportion of TB cases in which the patient was resistant to at least 1 antituberculosis drug varied widely among different regions of the world, ranging from 0% to over 50%; the proportion of MDR-TB cases ranged from 0% to over 20%. The WHO calcula...
Multidrug-resistant gonorrhoea: tackling a meaner bug in the UK. Tuberculosis (TB) has remained the 5th leading cause of death in Thailand for several years. There has been a slight change in the total number of TB cases... Ruth,Taylor,Chris,... - The journal of family planning and repr...
It may seem like an outdated disease, but TB has infected a third of the world's population. Although most cases are in the third world countries, the impact spreads globally contributing to new TB cases in developed countries. Unfortunately, most governments still see the disease as an old ...
Their halted access to care, diagnosis, and appropriate treatment has broad implications – a large number of undiagnosed DR-TB cases allows the disease to run rampant in communities. TB mortality rates also increase due to the insufficient diagnosis and inadequate treatment of many DR-TB patients...