Are we winning against TB?
A TB expert at the University of Leicester has warned: "We are not winning against tuberculosis." Mike Barer, Professor of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, said: "The Chief Medical Officer urged us to "get ahead of the curve" in his report on infection earlier this year. We are clearly behind the curve both on the global scale and in Leicester. "Last year more than one and a half million people died of tuberculosis and we had the largest ever recorded outbreak of the infection in a UK school in Leicester. What we have learned about the tubercle bacillus over the last 120 years has rendered most cases of TB treatable and the di