Rising drug resistance threatens global progress against TB

Your Health Matters

A tuberculosis patient listens as a doctor shows the condition of his lungs at the Indonesian Union Against Tuberculosis clinic in JakartaBy Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people infected with tuberculosis (TB) or dying from it fell in 2012, but global progress on controlling the contagious lung disease is at risk from growing drug resistance. In its annual TB report, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) said the world is on track to meet U.N. goals for 2015 of reversing TB incidence and cutting the death rate by 50 percent compared to 1990. …

facebookShare on Facebook
TwitterTweet
FollowFollow us
PinterestSave