Scientists warn of global crisis over failure to tackle tuberculosis

With 10 million new cases each year, outcome of UN summit in New York could prove crucialHeads of state, doctors and scientists will gather in New York next week to discuss one of the world’s most alarming medical crises: the failure of global efforts to tackle tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on Earth.More than 10 million new cases of TB are detected every year and about 1.7 million people die of the disease, according to a recent report by UK doctors. At the same time, the