AK Idea: The brightly coloured "Tutu Tester" van is a mobile clinic that incorporates screening for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV into a general health check-up in order to overcome the stigma associated with these diseases.
Not a closed book Economics on the net Feminism is motherhood Through a glass darkly How to get a boy Money can buy it ReprintsAll of this fits well with the popular idea of tuberculosis (TB) as the affliction par excellence of elegantly wasted young writers, artists and musicians.
Health programmes for diseases such as malaria and TB are in vogue, but investment in health workers remains insufficient to meet the needs of local populations.
This suggests that ART programs, if sufficiently implemented, may greatly assist in reducing TB mortality.
The current cull of badgers, aimed at cutting TB in cattle but derided by many scientists as ineffective, would be shut down by Labour.
It is the homeless and the vulnerable of British cities who, just like the slumdwellers of Mumbai, suffer most frequently from TB.
"Microbiological analysis of samples from contemporary TB patients usually report a single strain of tuberculosis per patient," said Mark Pallen of the University of Warwick medical school in central England, who led the new probe.
Further, the introduction of Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV has also led to a decline in the incidence of TB.
The researchers extracted samples from 26 of the Vac bodies with markers for TB infection.
All the samples carried a genetic signature of a notorious tuberculosis strain called Lineage 4, which today accounts for more than a million TB cases every year in Europe and the Americas.
In Belarus and parts of Russia, for example, more than a quarter of new TB cases survive several drug treatments.
