Global World News Tuberculosis Has Overtaken Covid As World S Deadliest Infectious Disease

We have the cure. Why is tuberculosis still around?

Tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system for years before you realize you have it. In the U.S., it’s relatively rare; provisional data shows that there ... Read More

'The Big One' could be even worse than COVID-19. Here's what epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says we can learn from past pandemics.

The new book "The Big One" describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the dangers of future outbreaks. Read More

Bill Gates pledges $912 million to global disease fight, urges governments to step up

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged ... Read More

World caught in "syndemic" of chronic diseases and COVID-19, global study says

LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The world is caught in a perfect storm of rising rates of chronic disease, persistent infectious diseases and public health failures that have fuelled deaths in the COVID-19 ... Read More

Fears as Victorian disease thought eradicated discovered at Southern state high school

A case of the deadly lung disease tuberculosis has been detected in another public high school after multiple cases have emerged across the country this year. An active case of tuberculosis (TB) was ... Read More