Thursday, 29 October 2015

Tuberculosis Now Rivals AIDS As Leading Cause of Death, Says WHO

Tuberculosis Now Rivals AIDS As Leading Cause of Death, Says WHO

For the first time, tuberculosis infections rivaled HIV/AIDS as a leading cause of death from infectious diseases, the World Health Organization said in a report released on Wednesday. It found that during 2014, 1.1 million people died of TB in 2014. During the same period, HIV/AIDS killed 1.2 million people globally, including 400,000 who were infected with both HIV and TB.
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