Closer to a cure for TB

THE world can eradicate tuberculosis by 2045 if the fight against the killer disease is properly funded, a global team of experts have claimed.

Warning of the immense economic and social costs of inaction, they said that better screening, treatments and public awareness were needed to reduce the more than 10 million cases recorded every year.

A chronic lung disease which is preventable and largely treatable if caught in time, tuberculosis is the top infectious killer of our time, causing over 1.6 million deaths each year.