Review of Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague — How Tuberculosis Shaped History: The chimera of tackling TB
2 years, 4 months ago

Review of Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague — How Tuberculosis Shaped History: The chimera of tackling TB

The Hindu  

Decades after the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918 ravaged India, adivasis from western India recalled the disease wiping out entire households. Glimpses of such intensity, albeit experienced in New England, can be found in the first part of Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History; dead bodies were exhumed, burned offal from patients’ corpses were fed to cure tuberculosis, and vampires came to embody the disease in literature. Other chapters in this part offer interesting insights into the historical evolution of infection control practices, the story of how TB came to be understood as an infectious disease — and not hereditary — innovative public health campaigns to control the spread of infection in New York, and the exciting discovery of the tuberculosis bacteria itself. With the evolution of the TB bacteria’s drug resistance versions, and the difficulty in accessing new drugs, India — and the world — can no longer afford to be complacent. Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History; Vidya Krishnan, Penguin Random House India, ₹799.

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Health chiefs issue urgent warning over surge in deadly 'Victorian disease' that is easily mistaken for a winter cold
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Health chiefs issue urgent warning over surge in deadly 'Victorian disease' that is easily mistaken for a winter cold

Daily Mail  

Tuberculosis, a serious lung infection also called the 'Victorian disease' that kills one in six people it infects and can cause victims to cough up blood, is on the rise in England. Health chiefs are now urging people with potential TB symptoms not to dismiss the signs, which include a continuous cough, and can be easily mistaken for common winter …

'Kerala has made notable strides in combating tuberculosis', says CM Pinarayi Vijayan
3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Kerala has made notable strides in combating tuberculosis', says CM Pinarayi Vijayan

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that tuberculosis is seldom discussed in public nowadays, as it’s often thought of as a disease that has been eradicated. However, Kerala has made notable strides in combating tuberculosis, achieving a 40 percent reduction in its prevalence over the past six years, he said. Speaking at the health department’s programme ‘Advancing Kerala’s Fight Against …

Missing TB Cases In India Reduced From 1 Million In 2015 To 0.26 Million In 2023: Mandaviya
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Missing TB Cases In India Reduced From 1 Million In 2015 To 0.26 Million In 2023: Mandaviya

News 18  

After two challenging years of the pandemic, India has seen a reduction in tuberculosis incidence by 16 per cent, almost double the pace witnessed globally, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. Virtually addressing the 37th Board Meeting of the Stop TB Partnership, he also said the number of missing TB cases in India has reduced from 1 million …

Let’s just talk health, shall we?
11 months, 1 week ago

Let’s just talk health, shall we?

The Hindu  

Often times, in the post-COVID world, with science/health reporting picking up since the pandemic, health writing becomes all about telling a story in detail, it’s about laying it all bare, explaining the nuances, capturing the latest research and interpreting it for a burgeoning group of readers of science and health articles. “A crippling cost-of-living crisis, burnout and well below inflation …

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high
1 year, 1 month ago

Tuberculosis: First time infections rise to 30-year high

Hindustan Times  

An estimated 10.6 million people developed tuberculosis in 2022. The World Health Organization said this was the highest annual record of new cases of TB since it started monitoring the disease in 1995. Due to isolation and quarantine measures during the pandemic, many people failed to get tested for TB, said Ananthakrishnan: "A large number of people who had extra …

WHO hailed India’s success in managing TB: Union Health Ministry
1 year, 1 month ago

WHO hailed India’s success in managing TB: Union Health Ministry

The Hindu  

India has made tremendous progress in improving case detection and reversed the impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis programme, noted the World Health Organization’s ‘Global TB Report 2023’ released earlier this week, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. “The WHO has made a downward revision of TB mortality rates from 4.94 lakh in 2021 to 3.31 lakh in 2022, …

WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB
2 years ago

WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 06, 2022 16:26 IST It is slowly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit India in early 2020, has had devastating and long-lasting effects on the nation’s ability to achieve its tuberculosis goals. The pandemic, followed by lockdowns and large-scale migrations of various populations, has continued to impact access to diagnosis as well as treatment …

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report
2 years, 1 month ago

India accounts for 28% of 10.6 million TB cases in 2021: WHO report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Around 10.6 million people across the world were diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, while 1.6 million patients died of the bacterial disease, according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. Nearly 82% of global TB deaths among HIV-negative people occurred in the African and South-East Asia regions, with India alone …

India must fine-tune its strategy to eliminate Tuberculosis
2 years, 2 months ago

India must fine-tune its strategy to eliminate Tuberculosis

The Hindu  

Termed as the severest crisis in a century, the COVID-19 pandemic dislodged the entire health system in India, sidelining other public health issues, and tuberculosis was no exception. Despite an extensive national programme and a vast private sector, India is the global epicentre for TB, with an estimated 2.8 million TB cases, and with TB killing more than 4,00,000 Indians …

Data | How did COVID affect TB treatment in India?
2 years, 8 months ago

Data | How did COVID affect TB treatment in India?

The Hindu  

India recorded a dramatic decrease in Tuberculosis cases during the pandemic. Active case findings are done among targeted risk groups, including people with diabetes, chronic kidney and liver disease, and patients on immunosuppressants, with the primary objective of detecting TB cases early. Active case findings The chart shows the number of active case findings of TB in India. Click to …

India sees sharp rise in tuberculosis patients, cases up by 19% in 2021, says Centre
2 years, 8 months ago

India sees sharp rise in tuberculosis patients, cases up by 19% in 2021, says Centre

Firstpost  

The total number of new and relapsed TB patients notified in India during 2021 were 19,33,381 as against 16,28,161 in 2020, the report showed New Delhi: The number of tuberculosis cases in India has seen a 19 per cent rise in 2021 over the previous year, according to the annual TB report released by Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on …

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease
2 years, 8 months ago

World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ways to prevent transmission of this airborne disease

India TV News  

Highlights Avoid close contact with the person who has TB Practice good hygiene. Cover your mouth with your elbow while coughing or sneezing Healthcare personnel coming in contact with TB infected persons are at high risk of exposure Tuberculosis, commonly abbreviated to TB, is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Read: World Tuberculosis Day 2022: Ayurvedic remedies …

Reduced access to TB care contributes to more deaths in 2021
2 years, 9 months ago

Reduced access to TB care contributes to more deaths in 2021

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai On the eve of World Tuberculosis Day, a report from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation revealed that Mumbai recorded more tuberculosis deaths in 2021 than the previous three years. Collated for four years, the civic body’s data shows that Mumbai registered 1,917 TB deaths last year as against 1,352 in 2020, 1,478 in 2019 and 1,471 in 2018. However, BMC …

Tuberculosis deaths rise for first time in years due to fight against COVID-19, WHO says
3 years, 2 months ago

Tuberculosis deaths rise for first time in years due to fight against COVID-19, WHO says

ABC  

The number of people killed by tuberculosis has risen for the first time in more than a decade as resources were diverted to fight the COVID-9 pandemic. Key points: The WHO estimated that about 4 million people live undiagnosed with tuberculosis Poor countries faced testing barriers due to inflated test prices, according to Doctors Without Borders Global investment into TB …

Tuberculosis deaths rise for the first time in years, largely due to COVID-19 pandemic
3 years, 2 months ago

Tuberculosis deaths rise for the first time in years, largely due to COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

The number of tuberculosis deaths has risen for the first time in more than a decade, largely because fewer people got tested and treated as resources were diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said Thursday. In its yearly report on TB, the United Nations health agency said 1.5 million people worldwide died of the bacterial disease …

Covid-19 has majorly impacted the tuberculosis control efforts: Harsh Vardhan
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19 has majorly impacted the tuberculosis control efforts: Harsh Vardhan

Live Mint  

Dealing a massive blow to the tuberculosis control efforts of the government, covid-19 pandemic has majorly impacted the new disease notifications in 2020, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. During the period of January to October 2020, only 14.5 lakh TB cases have been notified which is 29% lower than the same period in 2019, with the decline …

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