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Tuberculosis Affect 12 million People Globally

SRINAGAR, INDIAN ADMINISTERED KASHMIR, INDIA - MARCH 23: A Kashmiri health care professional sterilizes the sputum collection bottles for Tuberculosis which will be discarded after proper sterilization at Kashmir’s lone chest diseases hospital established by Christian missionaries over a century ago primarily for treatment of tuberculosis and other chest diseases on the World Tuberculosis Day on March 23, 2015 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Tuberculosis is among the world's most infectious killers that affects more than 12 million people globally with 2 million deaths annually. India too is the worst hit with three million people infected with TB and adds an estimated 99,000 drug-resistant TB cases every year, treatment has been a worry with a tiny fraction of those infected in India receive the proper drugs even with government-funded program. The government-run tuberculosis treatment programs in India have been hit by the regulation of the sale of drugs that fight the disease are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat. The World Health Organization has put India in the list of high-burdened countries contributing 80 percent of the world's TB problem. 24 March is recognized as World Tuberculosis Day. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/NurPhotos) (Photo by Yawar Nazir/NurPhoto)

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