Tuberculosis

A random leak at the Sotiria Hospital in 2015 revealed the belongings of hundreds of patients who died of tuberculosis in the previous century and were buried unnamed in mass graves in the hospital grounds.

Once Oscar-nominated director and producer Marianna Economou heard about the discovery and gained access to the belongings, it got stuck in her head and heart.

Ahead of us lies a future free of TB

Statement on World TB Day by WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge

Today, tuberculosis is preventable, treatable and curable.

Nearly 7,000 excess deaths from tuberculosis occurred in the WHO European Region in the three years of the pandemic from 2020 - 2022, compared to what experts had expected based on pre-2020 estimates. This increased mortality was a direct result of the pandemic and would not have occurred if TB diagnosis and treatment efforts had not been disrupted during the pandemic.

Researchers found very promising results when they lined up 19 gold compounds against several types of multidrug-resistant bacteria

Bucharest, March 24 /Agerpres/ - The President of the Senate, Anca Dragu, drew attention, on Wednesday, on the occasion of the World Tuberculosis Day, that Romania must make every effort to protect and treat the patients suffering from this condition.

In the worldwide battle against COVID-19, scientists are investigating whether a century-old tuberculosis vaccine might offer some additional protection against the novel coronavirus.

And Bulgaria -- one of the world's leading manufacturers of the vaccine -- is holding out hope of new markets for the many millions of doses it produces each year.

Why has Spain had almost 11,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic while Portugal's death toll barely exceeds 200?

Australian medics will launch tuberculosis vaccine tests in an attempt to fight the coronavirus. They have joined a global test to find a non-traditional solution involving several countries.

The theme of World TB Day 2020 is "It's TIME" CDC and its domestic and international partners, including the National TB Controllers Association, Stop TB USA, and the global Stop TB Partnership are working together to eliminate this deadly disease.

An interdisciplinary team of the University of Thessaly won the top prize in the international iGEM Synthetic Biology competition organised by MIT university in Boston.