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Tuberculosis cases reported in the United States appear to be returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control
Two new evidence-based algorithms for diagnosing pediatric tuberculosis developed by a Yale-led international team could improve TB diagnosis around the globe.
A new report by WHO has laid bare the worrying extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts to combat tuberculosis. At the centre of the 2022 Global Tuberculosis Report are the statistics on case notifications. In 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, 7·1 million new cases of tuberculosis were reported worldwide. In 2020, this number dropped to 5·8 million, before recovering somewhat to 6·4 million in 2021. WHO is confident that the reduced number of reported cases of tuberculosis does not represent a genuine drop in the disease burden.
A rapid communication released by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme has announced upcoming updates to the guidance on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). These updates include shorter novel 6-month al