But his recent increasingly higher spasms of coughing failed to draw doctors’ attention to the fact that he might have developed tuberculosis. “When you are in any country TB numbers go down; the TB cases that you are left with will be more complex. Bangladesh is one of the top six TB burden countries in the world, with poor socio-economic conditions. When you get the numbers down, you will have cases like Cedric, who had the infections in childhood when TB was prevalent in the UK. “TB is a never ending battle unless we work together,” he said, as he noted that most TB cases in the UK came from people who had emigrated from high-burden South Asian countries.

Source: bd News24 October 24, 2016 19:18 UTC