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Fight against tuberculosis: Prioritizing COVID sets back years of progress
Deutsche Welle ^ | 03.24.2021 | Louisa Wright

Posted on 03/24/2021 10:45:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai

In 2010, Phumeza Tisile, then a first-year student at Cape Town University in South Africa, noticed she couldn’t climb the stairs easily like other students. She would become tired quickly and had lost a lot of weight.

“That’s when I saw that there was something wrong,” Tisile told DW. “But I never thought that it might be TB.”

After other diseases were ruled out, a chest X-ray revealed Tisile did have tuberculosis (TB), and her journey to recovery — a feat that would take three years and eight months — began. […]

An estimated 1.4 million fewer people received care for TB in 2020 compared to 2019, the WHO said on Tuesday, citing preliminary data from more than 80 countries. […]

Earlier in March, Stop TB Partnership, a group of organizations working to end TB, published research that stated 12 months of COVID had erased 12 years of progress in the fight against TB.

Data from nine countries representing 60% of the global TB burden saw large declines in diagnosis and treatment of TB infections in 2020, ranging from 16% to 41%. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid19; tb; tuberculosis

1 posted on 03/24/2021 10:45:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

TB was always the real danger with open borders.


2 posted on 03/24/2021 10:47:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: Olog-hai
Several years ago I had a TB exposure, Chest X-rays, 9 months of some medicine that made my liver hurt. Tested negative since.

I don't give a crap about covid, these invaders are bringing in all kinds of other stuff.

3 posted on 03/24/2021 10:55:26 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Weijia Jiang can see racism anywhere. Except in the mirror.)
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To: Olog-hai

Taking the sum total of my grandparents and their siblings, a bit over a fifth of them died of TB.

Of those that were alive during the Spanish Flu - all survived.


4 posted on 03/24/2021 10:56:24 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Olog-hai

COVID (the lockdown) is a Master Class in unintended consequences.

Although one might well ask how unintended any of this really is.


5 posted on 03/24/2021 11:13:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Olog-hai

Goddamn COVID Hysteria has set back EVERYthing.

I hate it. I hate the approach docs and hospitals still insist on. Thank God my father missed the lonely death that my MIL got.

Not COVID? 2nd-class citizen!


6 posted on 03/24/2021 11:27:31 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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