Scientists Step Closer to Eliminating Tuberculosis

Scientists from Britain and the US say they have discovered a chemical pathway that could be developed to cause tuberculosis to self destruct. The scale of the problems posed by tuberculosis is enormous. One in three people worldwide are carriers of the bacteria. A total of 13 million people suffer from the disease and almost 2 million will die from it every year. But the timescale for developing new drugs is long, usually 10 years or more