Big Strides Made in Fighting Tuberculosis: WHO

The known tally of people with tuberculosis rose last year but overall "major progress" is being made in rolling back the disease, reveal the World Health Organization. "The 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halting and reversing TB incidence has been achieved globally, in all six WHO regions and in most of the 22 high TB-burden countries," it said. More effort is needed, though, it said: "The death toll from the disease is still unacceptably ...