The tuberculosis (TB) screening exercise at Bedok Central has been completed, with one person diagnosed with active TB ...
Those flagged will be required to do a follow-up chest X-ray to determine if they have active TB or latent TB infection, the ...
Discover the latest TB screening results from Bedok Central, with 85.1% testing negative for tuberculosis infection. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
India has seen a steep fall in tuberculosis and malaria cases and deaths in the past decade. With this, India has quietly pulled off one of the biggest public health improvements in recent years.
A total of 473 people screened for tuberculosis in Bedok have tested positive for the bacteria, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Wednesday (May 13).They make up 14.9 per cent of the ...
The Communicable Diseases Agency said that contact tracing is underway to identify and evaluate the close contacts of the ...
One person has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) so far after the completion of the screening exercise at Bedok ...
Most of those who tested positive are expected to have a latent TB infection, which does not pose a public health risk, CDA ...
The minister said that India has significantly scaled up modern diagnostics to detect TB and other lung diseases. Molecular ...
India has undertaken one of the world’s largest tuberculosis screening and early detection programmes as part of its efforts ...
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda, recently addressed a high-level side event on ...