{"id":19289,"date":"2024-03-24T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19289"},"modified":"2024-03-24T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:12:58","slug":"world-tb-day-un-warns-nearly-4400-lives-lost-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/world-tb-day-un-warns-nearly-4400-lives-lost-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"World TB Day: UN warns nearly 4,400 lives lost daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations, on occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day has announced that Nearly 4,400 people die from this disease daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the UN&#8217;s statement, this death toll among TB patients making it one of the world&#8217;s deadliest infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is that TB is preventable &amp; treatable,&#8221; the United Nations wrote in X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nearly 4,400 people die from tuberculosis daily, making it one of the world&#39;s deadliest infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that TB is preventable &amp; treatable.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldTBDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldTBDay<\/a>, learn more about tuberculosis from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WHO<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JBZ9Q78lhA\">https:\/\/t.co\/JBZ9Q78lhA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xjnks7UJ3k\">pic.twitter.com\/xjnks7UJ3k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; United Nations (@UN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN\/status\/1771750285490393437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, in 2022, 1.3 million people worldwide died due to TB, making it the second leading cause of death after the COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>March. 24. was named as World Tuberculosis Day.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations, on occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day has announced that Nearly 4,400 people die from this disease daily. According to the UN&#8217;s statement, this death toll among TB patients making it one of the world&#8217;s deadliest infectious diseases. &#8220;The good news is that TB is preventable &amp; treatable,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,218,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-health","category-headline"],"views":49,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19308,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions\/19308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}