TB tricks body's immune system to make people infectious
Tuberculosis (TB) tricks the immune system into attacking the bodys lung tissue, which makes the person highly infectious through coughing and the bacteria then spreads by aerosol droplets to other individuals, a new study says.
Oct 21, 2016, 14:42 PM IST
Tuberculosis – Who gets it? Ways to prevent TB
WHO's Global TB Report 2016 also found that nearly half a million people were diagnosed with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB).
Oct 14, 2016, 12:25 PM IST
India among 6 countries that account for 60% of new TB cases in 2015: WHO
Across the planet, 1.8 million people died of TB last year, 300,000 more than a year earlier, according to the WHO's Global TB Report 2016.
Oct 14, 2016, 08:43 AM IST
