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Tuberculosis kills. When it doesn’t, its effect stays for what is a lifetime. To make things worse, the current approach for treating TB consumes a lot of time. This puts pressure on TB control programmes. Here are some figures from World Health Organization’s website – 1.5 million people died of TB in 2018; an estimated 10 million fell ill with TB worldwide and alarmingly – among the eight countries that account for two-thirds of the TB cases, India has the most number of cases.
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