Background
The Bacillus causing TB is making a resurgence
Welcome to our Tuberculosis (TB) website. This website is all about the oldest disease known to mankind. As the world's attention is now focused on the bird flu ravaging across Asia , another silent killer sweeping across Asia and many parts of the world such as Africa is lurking within us. This silent killer kills far more people than the bird flu or Sars does. More than a million Asians and about 600,000 in Africa are killed yearly by this killer.
This silent killer is …… TUBERCULOSIS. This disease is as old as mankind and is the No. 1 infectious killer of adults in the world. While this disease is relatively subdued in the more developed countries, the number of people killed in other countries is alarming and mind boggling.
Not only that, this disease lurks within us – ready to strike us when our guards are down even for relatively healthy people. As much as one third of the world's population harbour dormant TB.
Furthermore drug resistant strains of TB and a host of other factors have contributed to the rise of this massive silent killer. Navigate our website to find out more about this silent killer and its resurgence and why YOU should be concerned. TB can strike anybody, at any time, anywhere. In the past decade or so, tuberculosis has been on the rapid rise.