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The number of people killed by tuberculosis has risen for the first time in more than a decade, largely because fewer people have got tested and treated as resources have been diverted to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Thursday
The number of people killed by tuberculosis 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 coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said.
The number of people killed by tuberculosis (TB) has risen for the first time in more than a decade, largely because fewer people have been tested and treated as resources were diverted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO said on Thursday. In its yearly report on TB, the UN health agency said that 1.5 million people worldwide died of the bacterial disease last year, a slight rise from the 1.4 million deaths in 2019. Evidence of the ancient disease has been found in Egyptian mummies and it is believed to have killed more people in history than any other infectious illness;
LONDON (AP) — The number of people killed by tuberculosis 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 coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said.
The rise in the tuberculosis death toll last year was due largely to fewer people getting tested and treated for TB during the COVID-19 pandemic.