WHO says we can 'write the final chapter in the story of TB.' How close are we?
The head of the World Health Organization is eager to wipe out one of the oldest and deadliest diseases.
Last week Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared: "We have an opportunity that no generation in the history of humanity has had: the opportunity to write the final chapter in the story of TB."
It's a story that began thousands of years ago. One history of TB notes: "Fragments of the spinal column from Egyptian mummies from 2400 BCE show definite signs of tuberculosis."
But as events of 2023 illustrate, there are a few chapters still to be written before Tedros's dream could come true.
Encouraging news about a familiar drug
A promising way to prevent the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis was announced at the Union World Conference on Lung Health on Thursday in Paris.
Two clinical trials, conducted in South Africa
