With 2.8M TB Cases, India Accounts For More Than One Quarter Of World’s Cases, Will Overhaul National Treatment Program

New York Times: ‘True Scale’ of India’s Tuberculosis Problem: 2.8 Million New Cases
“Finally coming to terms with the enormity of its tuberculosis problem, India is preparing a radical overhaul and expansion of its national treatment program to fight an affliction that kills more adults worldwide than any other infectious disease. The severity of the matter was underscored on Thursday when the World Health Organization substantially increased its estimate of the number of new patients with TB in India, to 2.8 million in 2015, compared with 2.2 million in 2014 — more than in any other country in the world and more than a quarter of the world total…” (Anand, 10/13).

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