Over 62 mn tuberculosis cases, 8 mn deaths in India during 2021-2040: Study

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The researchers, including those from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, said that low-income households would bear the larger share of health-related burden, while the high-income ones the larger share of the economic burden due to the disease.

Over 62 million cases of tuberculosis and eight million deaths are estimated in India in the two decades up to 2040, along with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) loss of more than USD 146 billion, according to a study.

Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that can spread in the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.