New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The National Institutes of Health confirmed that diabetes and tuberculosis can both trigger the occurrence of the other. Citing the presence of a stress-induced process, NIH Scientist and Scientific Director(ICER), Dr Subash Babu on Thursday said that diabetes can increase the risk of TB and vice-versa. Both diseases can pace up each other's occurrence, the scientist clarified.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 5 (ANI): Researchers at Tamil Nadu's National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) found instances of reverse zoonosis (human-to-animal and animal-to-human) in the transmission of tuberculosis (TB).