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Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”

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By PNG Echo This writer is a non-medical, interested observer, of Tuberculosis (TB) who, having been expertly informed by leading global medicos and researchers (as an invited fellow of the National Press Foundation to the World Conference on Lung Health 2012 in Kuala Lumpur) and who having witnessed, first hand, its devastation in the district of Goilala, Central Province, has been been writing about it ever since. In particular, I have bothered, cajoled, shamed (tried to) and bullied everyone and anyone I could with the purpose of getting a ‘GeneXpert’ diagnostic machine for the remote clinic in Tapini, Goilala in Continue reading Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”→

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World TB Day – 24 March

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To coincide with World TB Day, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union) has released the results of a study that shows tobacco smoking  doubles the risk of tuberculosis (TB) recurring. The Union states that the Study is the most robust ever conducted into how smoking tobacco increases the risk of recurrent TB.  The Study involved a large sample of 5,567 patients who had successfully completed TB treatment.

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