March 24, every year is World?s Tuberculosis Day ? (WTD). Although I had received several emails requesting that I discuss tuberculosis, I would rather discuss it next week.
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Janet Tobias says she admires the fact that India is striving to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025- well before the global target date of 2030. She feels that India can not only eliminate the infectious disease, but it can be an example to the world on how to do it.
Tuberculosis rates reached a historic low in the United States in 2017, but infection rates did not fall as quickly as in previous years — and not fast enough to eradicate the disease.
A more intensive biomedical research approach is necessary to control and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis (TB), according to a perspective published in the March 2018 issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
