There's a company that could save an enormous amount of lives and suffering – just by reducing by a tiny bit their revenue of 24 Billion USD a year!
#Danaher makes an incredible test for #tuberculosis and other terrible diseases, which gives people a chance to survive and thrive after infection. But they mark them up by 200-400 %! Making it impossible for most people who actually need them to get them!
An #AI tool potentially could detect #COVID19 and #tuberculosis from a person’s cough. it's the first model trained on more than 300 million clips of coughing, breathing and throat clearing from YouTube videos. I'm wondering how they handled the ad breaks...
wtf 😷🐮 — “Health officials have begun contact tracing after a person at the University of California Davis campus was diagnosed with a contagious form of #tuberculosis ” from @DrIanWeissman
"We're starting to see forms of tuberculosis that resist antibiotics. Those have been rising since the 1980s, but now they're becoming more common. If you catch one of those, your odds of dying go up to about 30 percent compared to TB's normal 90 percent survival rate (with treatment). Researchers at Washington University found that drug-resistant tuberculosis disarms your #ImmuneSystem. You don't just get over #tuberculosis. It takes months to fight off the infection and recover. Even if you survive, there's often lasting damage.
You might already have #TB and just don't know it. Health agencies estimate that up to 13 million people in the U.S. alone have latent (hidden) tuberculosis infections. They have the bacteria in them, but they don't feel sick. A latent infection can always become active. "For persons whose immune systems are weak, especially those with HIV infection, the risk of developing TB is considerably higher than for persons with normal immune systems."" #covid https://www.okdoomer.io/covid-trashed-our-immunity/
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis.
Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here.
It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years.
Today the building is abandoned.
Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere.
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
"At telephone follow up on she reported that her symptoms lasted 11 days. Seven weeks later she presented again with a two-day history of right-side pleuritic chest pain, cough, subjective fever and anorexia.
[...] This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does."
Mongolia continues to face the spread of TB, particularly in the low-income population. Tuberculosis (TB), a long-standing scourge that has afflicted humanity for millennia, remains a formidable global health challenge. Despite Mongolia’s pledge to combat tuberculosis at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on the issue,...
Everyone knows that #tuberculosis is a treatable disease nowadays. I did not know that the treatment typically takes six months of continuous medication.
By the early 1990s, New York City was the epicenter of a nationwide tuberculosis epidemic. The city spent $1 billion to expand its TB control program, staffing the bureau with over 600 people to treat well over 3,000 cases a year.”
Last year there were 536 cases..
Now technically TB despite being #airborne should be kind of difficult to catch. My friend & his business partner got it from working in the same small office w/a🇬🇧intern who he also smoked pot with. However if your immune system is decimated by say having low #tcells you’re far more susceptible
Those #antibiotics were surreal looking; giant huge pink pills➕➕& you had to take them for a long time
Tuberculosis is a bigger threat than COVID-19, but it gets less attention. The bacterial infection kills 1.4 million people every year, more than any other infectious disease. COVID-19 has disrupted the efforts to diagnose and treat TB, putting millions of lives at risk. #Tuberculosis#Pandemic#Healthhttps://time.com/6317647/tuberculosis-pandemic-threat/
How a #BigPharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving #Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
A vaccine against #tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives.
But its development slowed after its corporate owner #GSK focused on more profitable vaccines.
Mongolia’s looming tuberculosis crisis (thediplomat.com)
Mongolia continues to face the spread of TB, particularly in the low-income population. Tuberculosis (TB), a long-standing scourge that has afflicted humanity for millennia, remains a formidable global health challenge. Despite Mongolia’s pledge to combat tuberculosis at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on the issue,...