Short duration treatment four months instead of the standard six is as effective in combating most cases of childhood tuberculosis (TB), says a study carried out in India and some African countries.
While largely vaccinated countries of the North are abandoning health measures and seem to be "turning the page" on the COVID-19 pandemic, low- and middle-income countries are still struggling to vaccinate their populations. This not only contributes to the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, but has implications for the control of other infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB).
For the past two years, COVID-19 has been the infectious disease that kills more people per year than any other. But another, much older, and much more insidious plague held this title prior to COVID-19: Tuberculosis (TB).
With the COVID-19 death toll in the United States having surpassed 730,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed that he finds it "mind-boggling" that partisanship and skepticism of science continue to fuel the pandemic.