Health
Silent pandemic the world is ignoring – Morning Bulletin
A Perth woman went through 18 months of hell with a forgotten disease that up to one million Aussies unknowingly have ‘latent’ in their bodies.
While the world has been fixated by the COVID-19 crisis for the past year, a forgotten pandemic is raging around the world – and right here in Australia – with barely anybody noticing.
Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and treatable, yet still manages to kill 4000 people every day – with 700 of those children.
It’s a disease caused by bacterial infection and commonly affects a person’s lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body and can cause serious illness.
And, while it may sound like something…
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