"Tuberculosis"

In 2019 alone, an estimated 10 million people worldwide got tuberculosis, a deadly bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs. An estimated quarter of the world's population has a TB infection. Most aren't actively sick - yet.

Covid-19 tests on the corpse of an elderly Laotian man, whose death caused panic in Udon Thani’s Nong Han district, have come out negative.

Tuberculosis, as a Lancet editorial once put it, it is an "unsexy" disease.

The singer-cum-actress who seemed perfectly healthy until shortly before her death on June 14 had succumbed to a rare form of tuberculosis, a detailed examination by the Siriraj Hospital reveals.

A 61-year-old homeless woman who died of tuberculosis (TB) last month had only just been confirmed as a Thai in a DNA test, which would have earned her a citizenship card and access to the Bt30 healthcare scheme that could have saved her life.

THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has organised a campaign to reduce the number of people contracting tuberculosis after Thailand ranked as the 14th worst country in the world for the disease.

Each year Tuberculosis takes a deadly toll on the world.