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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
paimadhu
Thread on the 2020 Global Tuberculosis Report released by WHO today.10M people developed TB in 2019 and 1.4M died. Hardly any change from the previous year.https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/global-tuberculosis-report-2
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Munim Matin
munimmatin
United India’s best-kept secret:Amid political chaos and negotiations with the Congress and British, Jinnah had one more battle to triumph – Tuberculosis.A thread. Tuberculosis was just about to take his
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World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO
Progress and multisectoral action towards achieving global targets to #EndTB with @DrTedros. #UNGA https://www.pscp.tv/w/cjn7PjI2MTAyMHwxak1KZ1h3bE5FWXhMXd1kcgi-i9mn7KSzIok6dtd5o6EbvZDr-sR7ZHzY3Pk= "The number of people treated for #tu
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World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO
There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) protects people against infection with #COVID19. Two clinical trials addressing this question are underway & WHO will evaluate the evidence
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Philip Turner
philipsturner
In 2001, as editor I brought out Michael E. Bell's "Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires," a superb&surprising book that revealed a 19th C folk-medical
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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
We’ve all had eyes peeled on the multi-car pileup that’s America, but meanwhile, Covid is devastating people with #tuberculosis #HIV and #Malaria. These are big killers — #TB alone kills
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Andrew Neil
afneil
75 years ago yesterday (h/t Tom Gross) SS troops murdered 20 Jewish children and at least 28 adults in the basement of a school at Bullenhuser Damm 92-94 in Hamburg.
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Matthew Kavanagh
MMKavanagh
Powerful piece today on #HIV and #TB during #COVID19. Delays in diagnosis, treatment interruption, supply chain failures, but also emerging solutions by @apoorva_nyc @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosi
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Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP)
KSPrior
When the Victorian novelist Emily Bronte was bitten by a rabid dog, she cauterized the wound herself with a hot poker. Yet when she died at age 30 from tuberculosis,
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Dave Blake, PhD
_stah
Use a CO2 monitor during busy crowded times in public indoor spaces to check ventilation. Fix it to target 600 ppm or less, and you SHOULD eliminate COVID-19 aerosol transmission.
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Vishal Sharma
drvishal82
1/6 Our case series and systematic review on Gastroduodenal Tuberculosis, an uncommon form of GI TB is now online at @tandfmedicine . #tuberculosis Key points in the thread belowhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17474124.2020.181
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Working Group on New TB Vaccines
newtbvaccines
Live: Prof Frank Cobelens introduces the purpose of the new Global TB vaccine roadmap @EDCTP @GlobForumTBVax https://twitter.com/GlobForumTBVax/status/1384538892020375553 The key barriers to #Tuberculosis vaccine R&D are summarised in t
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HumanProgress.org
HumanProgress
.@NellFrizzell should read our #SimonAbundanceIndex. Children do not strain the world's resources. In fact, the opposite is true: each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance.https://www.humanprogress.org/the-simo
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jon drake
DrakeGatsby
Video Games in the 80s: Run! Jump! Eat this flower! Collect the coins! Video Games Now: You are a broken man, haunted by the choices you’ve made. You do not
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TBPPM Learning Network
tb_ppm
All #healthcare facilities (public + private) need strengthening in this crisis to respond to people's needs. We need 'all hands on deck' and not sideline #privatesector healthcare (1/5) @dav3c1arke @hellowell_mark
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ARREST SOMEONE!!!
kickboxer313
Hello everyone I am the Coronavirus. In California I only come out between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. silly humans actually think that mask work I am so small I
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