The bug, having existed in the world far longer than us, springs some evolutionary survival tricks

Tuberculosis or TB is an ancient disease that has affected humankind since historical times.

Analysis of some of the mummies of Egyptian royalty has suggested that they suffered from TB. Until recent times, no cure was known for TB; antibiotics are less than a century-old invention.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will develop the infrastructure of Revised National tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in order to bring down the rate of Tuberculosis disease in the city, member, mayor-in-council (health) Mr Atin Ghosh said today.

Mr Ghosh said the KMC will launch an awareness programme with the help of the of RNTCP employees as around 12,000 people are affected wit

N. Gopal Raj

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A team of Indian researchers has discovered a way in which the tuberculosis bacterium is able to remain dormant for many years in the bodies of those it infects, emerging to cause disease when their immune system weakens.

The World Health Organisation estimates that one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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KOLKATA, 18 OCT: The state health department has decided to provide bicycles under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to reach remote areas in the blocks.

A team of officials from NRHM recently visited various block primary health care centres and primary health care centres and found that the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), who are

Under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) over 1500 TB cases are detected in Goa annually but current rate of detection of 58 per cent is less than the rate fixed under RNTCP.
One of the objectives of RNTCP is to achieve and maintain a cure rate of at least 85 per cent among newly detected infectious (new sputum smear positive).
Dr Jose De Sa, Chief Medical Officer, in-charge