Monday, April 01, 2019

NEW HOPE - Stopping Tuberculosis

"New treatments yield hope for stopping tuberculosis, world’s leading infectious killer" PBS NewsHour 3/26/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Sunday marked World Tuberculosis DayWhile T.B. doesn’t attract the same attention as influenza, malaria, or Ebola, it recently surpassed HIV/AIDS to become the globe's leading infectious killer.  In 2018, there were more than 10 million new cases.  There hadn’t been a treatment breakthrough for 40 years, but the tide is starting to turn.  Hari Sreenivasan shares a story of hope from South Africa.

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