
Tuberculosis kills more than a million people every year: WHO
India Today
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom said tuberculosis kills more than a million people every year.
Despite being a preventable and treatable disease, tuberculosis kills more than a million people every year, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom said.
"Despite being a preventable and treatable, TB kills more than a million people every year, almost half of them in the WHO South East-Asia Region. We must intensify effort towards ending TB," Dr Tedros Adhanom said while addressing a high-level meeting on tuberculosis.

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