Winning the War Against TB
From 2000 to 2014, better diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis saved some 43 million lives. But there is a long way to go before the death toll is reduced to zero – a goal that will require treating inactive infections and raising the living standards of at-risk populations.
https://prosyn.org/W8RiJhd
SEATTLE – Humans have been battling tuberculosis since the Stone Age. But only in the last century has real progress been made against the disease. A vaccine, first used in humans in 1921, is still in use around the world today. And a series of antibiotics, beginning with streptomycin in the 1940s, has proven effective in treating infections.