Despite being completely curable, TB still a leading cause of mortality
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Early diagnosis and proper treatment can cure a person of tuberculosis, which is still a major infectious disease affecting hundreds of thousands of people annually around the globe, including Pakistan. Medical experts said this on Monday in connection with World Tuberculosis Day, which happened a day earlier on March 24. The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) marked the day with a resolve to make the world free from tuberculosis, which is commonly known with its abbreviation TB. TB has been known as a deadly disease since centuries, the experts said. It remains the deadliest infectious killer with around 4,500 deaths and 30,000 new infections each day throughout the...