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The aim is to check under-reporting of tuberculosis, which has been flagged as a major area of concern by UN health agency WHO.
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TB is an infectious, airborne disease mainly affecting the lungs and is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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In 2015, TB caused nearly 8,00,000 deaths in the region, while an estimated 4.74 million new cases were reported.
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Across the planet, 1.8 million people died of TB last year, 300,000 more than a year earlier, according to the WHO's Global TB Report 2016.
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The study found that in 2014, the private sector treated between 1.9 million and 5.34 million cases -- or about double the cases handled by government-run hospitals.
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TB remains to be one of the largest on India's health and wellness scale.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs.
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A Bengaluru-based company has made the new diagnostic tool for TB.
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India's success rate was 66 percent in fighting TB as per the statistical data of 2013.
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India, Indonesia and China had the largest number of TB cases at 23 per cent, 10 per cent and 10 per cent respectively of the global total in 2014.
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