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Research Article
Risk of developing active tuberculosis following tuberculosis screening and preventive therapy for Tibetan refugee children and adolescents in India: An impact assessment
Kunchok Dorjee , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Tuberculosis, Delek Hospital, Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala, India ⨯
Tenzin Tsewang,
Affiliation Division of Tuberculosis, Delek Hospital, Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala, India ⨯
Tenzin Tsundue,
Affiliation Division of Tuberculosis, Delek Hospital, Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala, India
Affiliation Division of Tuberculosis, Delek Hospital, Department
What is Disease X and why is everyone talking about it?
A woman recently showed symptoms of haemorrhagic fever. She was tested for Ebola and even coronavirus, but all her test reports came out to be negative. Now, scientists fear if she is suffering from Disease X . But what is Disease X? Is it some mysterious new disease? Where does it come from? Read on to know.
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UPDATED: January 22, 2021 15:24 IST
The WHO mentions Disease X on a shortlist of pathogens considered to be a blueprint priority diseases for research. (Image for representation: Getty Images)
While the coronavirus era continues to haunt the humankind, there s an unknown threat lurking deep in the forests, miles away from a city, in some corner of the world, waiting to trigger the next pandemic . It s Disease X and the X-factor of this disease is that everything about it is unknown. It is not technically a disease but is an area of research for scientists studying possibilities of the next pan
The body s mechanisms for fighting infections and eradicating dysfunctional cells.
Fauci said he did not think that HIV infection in itself made people more likely to be hospitalised and die from COVID-19. He said he thought the higher rates of severe COVID illness seen in some studies of people with HIV were caused by the age profile of the population (over half of people with HIV in the US are now over 50) and by the fact that people with HIV were more likely to have co-morbidities.
He also acknowledged that socioeconomic factors, including ethnicity, had a strong influence on whether people infected with COVID ended up in hospital. Latino/Latina people and Native American people were now more likely than any other population to be hospitalised, with rates of 671 and 660 hospitalisations per 100,000 population, respectively. Black Americans’ hospitalisation rate was now 598 per 100,000. In contrast, non-Hispanic White people and Asians had hospitalisation rates around 2