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Coronavirus crippling fight against other pandemic: TB – Yahoo News Australia

The global community is missing the chance to end the “modern tragedy” of tuberculosis, the biggest infectious killer, experts said Monday, warning…

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The global community is missing the chance to end the “modern tragedy” of tuberculosis, the biggest infectious killer, experts said Monday, warning how Earth’s other pandemic will worsen during Covid-19.
The fight against tuberculosis — a respiratory disease that is preventable and treatable yet kills more than 1.4 million people every year — is chronically underfunded, with diagnosis and treatment failing to reach millions.
The Stop TB Partnership (STBP) said many high-incidence countries were…

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