#tb test

When does a common cough turn into TB?: हर साल 24 मार्च को World TB Day मनाया जाता है, जिसका उद्देश्य लोगों को Tuberculosis (टीबी) के प्रति जागरूक करना है। टीबी एक संक्रामक बीमारी है, जो आज भी भारत समेत कई देशों में बड़ी संख्या में सामने आती है। इस बीमारी के बढ़ने का एक मुख्य कारण है- इसके शुरुआती लक्षणों को नजरअंदाज करना। खासकर लंबे समय तक रहने वाली खांसी को लोग सामान्य समझकर टाल देते हैं, जबकि…

I took my ID picture on Wednesday and got the ID in today (need it to get into the building, use the elevators and get into animal colony) and I look so good.  I look at it next to my college ID that I got in May of 2015 and my face looks so much better.  I can honestly say I think I look pretty in the photo which I haven’t been able to say in years.  So happy with the changes I’ve made in last year.  

I had to finish more training today to be able to work with human subjects and got my TB testing done on Wednesday.  I also got to watch the women who works in the animal colony for like an hour and saw how we give them chemo treatment and euthanize them.  She said we’d be doing breeding on Monday which I am so excited for!  Like working in this lab is a dream come true and I can’t believe I’m here.  

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A low-cost urine test that detects tuberculosis in people living with HIV can save thousands of lives, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa, a Cape Town University researcher said on Wednesday. Nearly 40 percent of adults with HIV/AIDS in Africa die of TB as almost half of TB cases remain undiagnosed and untreated, according to researcher Keertan Dheda, whose…