Thursday, October 29, 2015

TB Now Kills as Many as AIDS, New Report Finds

The number of tuberculosis cases has fallen by 18 percent since 2000, but the completely curable infection now kills as least as many every year as the AIDS virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

It's because countries are not spending enough money to treat people infected with the highly infectious disease, which takes weeks or months of daily antibiotics to eradicate. 

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