New WHO Guidance Aims To Speed Tuberculosis Testing

Summary: The World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing for new, faster ways to test for tuberculosis (TB), a deadly lung infection that kills over 3,300 people every day. Instead of sending samples to slow, expensive labs, doctors can now use portable, battery-powered tests that give results in under an hour.

Plus, instead of making patients cough up deep mucus, doctors can now just use a simple tongue swab. These cheaper, easier tools could save millions of lives by catching the disease early and stopping it from spreading. However, the WHO warns that we still need more funding for research to completely wipe out TB.

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