1. In 2020, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis(TB) worldwide. 5.6 million men, 3.3 million women and 1.1 million children. TB is present in all countries and age groups. But TB is curable and preventable.
2. A total of 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020 (including 2,14,000 people with HIV). Worldwide, TB is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above HIV/AIDS).
3. Child and adolescent TB is often overlooked by health providers and can be difficult to diagnose and treat.
4. TB is the leading killer of people with HIV.
5. Health crisis and a health security threat. Only about one in three people with drug resistant TB accessed treatment in 2020. In some cases an even more severe form of multi-drug resistant TB may develop with bad treatment. Pre-extensively drug-resistant TB (pre-XDR-TB) and (XDR-TB) are forms of TB that responds to even fewer available medicines.
6. TB treatment saved about 66 million lives globally between 2000 and 2020.
7. The treatment success rate for people with TB was 86% in 2019.
8. Globally, TB incidence is falling at about 2% per year.
9. People with weakened immune systems have a much greater risk of falling ill from TB.
10. TB usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body, such as the brain, the kidneys, or the spine.
11. A person with TB can die if they do not get treatment.
12. The general symptoms of TB disease include feelings of sickness or weakness, weight loss, fever, and night sweats.
13. TB disease of the lungs also include coughing, chest pain, and the coughing up of blood.
14. It spreads when a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, speaks, or sings.
15. TB germs can stay in the air for several hours, depending on the environment.
16. A person with latent TB infection cannot spread germs to other people.
17. If you have spent time with someone with TB disease or someone with symptoms of TB, you should be tested.
18. TB disease can be treated by taking several medicines for 6 to 12 months.
19. The disease began to make a resurgence in the 1980's with the onset of the HIV epidemic.
20. The disease kills around 5000 people each day.
21. TB treatment is a lot more complicated when dealing with children, TB in children is a huge problem.
22. In 2013 alone, tuberculosis killed 80,000 children.
23. With 29% of all TB cases being recorded in Africa.The greatest per capita rate of infection recorded.
24. the death rate from TB has fallen by 45% in the period of 1990 to 2013.
25. Myth about TB in countries are people believe that TB is hereditary or can be spread through food or water but it's actually Not True.