India has made enormous progress in TB control and to imply otherwise wouldn't accurately reflect the WHO's opinion.
WSJ: The WHO Supports India's Fight Against MDR-TB �� Letters to the Editor
The Indian TB control program in Mumbai follows these recommendations when treating MDR-TB and adds one more agent to the five families of medicine.
WSJ: The WHO Supports India's Fight Against MDR-TB �� Letters to the Editor
With political momentum gathering to address non-communicable diseases, public and private actors should be also be looking to integrate TB control with programs targeting diabetes, for example.
FORBES: To Stop Tuberculosis In Its Tracks, Urgent Global Action Is Needed
It is incredibly clear that the current policy of TB control is an abject failure, so carrying on as we are is doomed to increase the size of any effective future badger cull.
Any serious attempt to control TB must involve the removal of infected animals and to that end I support the culling of badgers in infected areas.
The planned cull of badgers to help control bovine TB, which has been "postponed" until the summer.
Ministers have given approval for a cull in two areas, Gloucestershire and west Somerset, as part of efforts to control bovine TB.
BBC: Badger cull: Government to delay scheme until next year
As far as badger vaccination goes I am willing and in fact encouraging its use as an adjunct to the control of disease, but ultimately culling should be done as well to expedite the overall success of control of TB.
Amongst other issues discussed was the vaccination of badgers in the control of bovine TB.
The other challenge is in the tantalising thought that the same success may well be repeatable - to help control major killers like TB, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.
Some experts also blame lax public health procedures at immigration control for the rise in TB in developed countries.
Tighter control measures to reduce the risk of bovine TB spreading between cattle have been introduced in England.
Thankfully, after many trials with some errors, we loved the control that the unit placed at our fingers, as TB promised.
ENGADGET: Turtle Beach XP Seven Series headset review: a new era of tournament-grade gaming audio
The Conservatives' election manifesto had promised to "introduce a carefully managed and science-led policy of badger control in areas with high and persistent levels of bovine TB".
应用推荐