Worldwide efforts to grapple with coronavirus are badly affecting diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB, experts say.
Worldwide efforts to grapple with coronavirus are badly affecting diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB, experts said, predicting an additional 6.3 million cases of the infection by 2025 as a result, according to a report published Wednesday.TB is a bacterial infection that affects the lungs and has been around for hundreds of years. It kills 1.
Scarlet fever is just one disease that many have forgotten but that is by no means gone, despite our best efforts to eliminate it. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: 10 diseases you thought were goneThough it's often thought of as a medieval disease, the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 global cases of plague every year. The US averages seven new human cases a year, mostly in the Southwest. Pictured, a patient with gangrene and necrosis, caused by plague.
Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: 10 diseases you thought were goneThis 19-year-old girl in Neijiang, China, is being carried in a basket because she has rickets. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, which we get from sunlight. Experts believe rickets is making a comeback in developed countries because of the use of sunscreen and less time spent outdoors.
Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: 10 diseases you thought were goneThere were 216,000 global cases of leprosy, an ancient and disfiguring disease, in 2013. Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: 10 diseases you thought were goneAlthough there is a pertussis vaccine, there were an estimated 16 million global cases of whooping cough in 2008, killing about 195,000 children.
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