Child TB Problem More Serious Than Ever Before

More than 650,000 children are falling ill with tuberculosis each year in the 22 worst affected countries. This is twenty-five percent more than what the UN had thought, UN specialists have observed. Reporting in The Lancet, they said that about 53 million children under 15 are living with latent TB infection, a condition that can develop into active TB at any time. A contagious disease of the lungs, TB is caused by a microbe called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...