Posted on 07/29/2021 11:23:41 AM PDT by grundle
With attention focused on coronavirus, undiagnosed and untreated TB cases will cause 1.4 million to die, research suggests
The head of a global partnership to end tuberculosis (TB) said she is “sickened” by research that revealed millions more people are expected to contract the disease as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
Up to 6.3 million more people are predicted to develop TB between now and 2025 and 1.4 million more people are expected to die as cases go undiagnosed and untreated during lockdown. This will set back global efforts to end TB by five to eight years.
“The fact that we’ve rolled back to 2013 figures and we have so many people dying, this for me is sickening,” said Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership. “I am outraged that just by not being able to control what we do … and forgetting about programmes that exist we lose so much, starting with the loss of the lives of people.”
There is currently no TB vaccine for adults, only one for children.
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My medically unqualified guess is, covid-19 is 50 times more contagious than TB. I have seen TB sufferers cared for by their family and not pass it on to everyone in the family. Covid-19 will easily infect everyone living in the house.
That’s accurate - TB is usually associated with poor nutrition along with squalid living conditions and repeat exposures. Prob is there are some strains of TB resistant to the 3 drug regimen and that’s a serious concern.
TB = illegal immigrants
TB could be coming in from the millions of illegal immigrants flooding our borders.
That is what I said in post #20.
Yes, those drug resistant strains of TB are a serious problem.
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