India’s Long War on a Very Old Killer
Tuberculosis will not vanish by decree, but India’s unfinished battle against it is reshaping public health. Tuberculosis is as old as civilisation and as stubborn as poverty. The disease scarred Egyptian mummies long before it stalked the slums of modern megacities. Two millennia later, it remains one of humanity’s deadliest infections, killing about 1.25 million people a year and sickening more than 10 million worldwide. In India, which shoulders more than a quarter of the global burden,...
