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A Michigan woman has died just months following an elective back surgery after doctors discovered the bone graft material used in her surgery was contaminated with tuberculosis.
This is the first time in many years an increase has been reported in the number of people falling ill with TB and drug-resistant TB, it said.
The hospital’s Senior Nursing Officer, Ms Phoebe Nangobi, attributed the high death rates to inadequate monitoring of patients while on treatment which, she said, leads to drug resistance and deaths
A modelling study shows M72/AS01E dose’s potential impact and value in the two high burden tuberculosis countries.
TB is caused by a bacteria that most often affects the lungs. Like Covid, it is transmitted by air by infected people, for example by coughing