New estimates by US researchers say as many as 32,000 children worldwide become sick each year with MDR-TB. According to [s]Health24[/s], the study found that as many as 1m children become sick with TB each year, about twice the number previously thought, and of these, only a third are ever diagnosed. ‘A huge proportion (of children) are suffering and dying from TB unnecessarily,’ said [b]Helen Jenkins[/b] of [b]Brigham and Women’s Hospital[/b], lead statistician on the study published in [s]The Lancet[/s].
[i]The good news is that internationally, fewer people will contract TB this year than last[/i]. But, writes [b]Christian Leinhardt, senior research adviser[/b] at the [b]WHO Global TB Programme[/b] in a [s]Nature[/s] report, the pace of progress is too slow. Some 8.6m people contracted the disease in 2012, and 1.3m died, including 320,000 people with HIV. As it stands, Lienhardt says, the world will miss the international target to eliminate TB by 2050.
[link url=http://www.health24.com/Medical/Tuberculosis/News/TB-infections-hard-to-diagnose-in-children-20140325]Full Health24 report[/link]
[link url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60195-1/abstract]The Lancet research summary[/link]
[link url=http://www.nature.com/news/fundamental-research-is-the-key-to-eliminating-tb-1.14911]Full Nature report[/link]