The Deadly Axis of TB and Diabetes
Last year, tuberculosis surpassed HIV/AIDS to become the world's deadliest infectious disease. World leaders must mount a response commensurate with the scale of the problem – especially as we learn more about the interaction between TB and another deadly global killer: diabetes.
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PARIS – Last year, tuberculosis surpassed HIV/AIDS to become the world’s deadliest infectious disease. According to a recent report by the World Health Organization, the illness claims about 1.5 million lives every year. Astonishingly, one out of every three people worldwide lives with a latent TB infection that could eventually develop into the active – and potentially deadly – form of the disease.