New trials in Africa could help tamp down spread of TB
by editors@theworld.org (Elna Schutz) from The World: Latest Stories on (#7350T)
Tuberculosis is a disease that primarily affects the lungs, notoriously causing patients to cough up blood. In 2023, tuberculosis surpassed COVID to become the world's deadliest infectious disease. That's why an effort is ramping up to get a TB vaccine into circulation, specifically for adolescents and adults. Elna Schutz reports from South Africa, one of the seven countries where the vaccine for ADULTS is being tested.