Tuberculosis, which is transmitted through the respiratory tract, kills more than 1.6 million people and infects more than 10 million worldwide each year.
This disease was once a scourge and it killed an estimated four million people between 1851 and 1910. Now, it can be cured with antibiotics and most people will make a full recovery. But it has returned and it remains the second-biggest killer infection worldwide after Covid. Know about the disease.
Study shows how numerous generations of dividing bacteria tie together to form snake-like cords in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to enable antibiotic resistance. | Health