audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent. The WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2014 underscored that the highly contagious disease remains the second biggest infectious disease killer, infecting an estimated nine million people last year and killing 1.5 million. The report indicated good news about the overall mortality trend, which fell 45 percent between 1990 and 2013. Over 95% of TB deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Tuberculosis TB is much higher in developing countries such as Bangladesh, which ranks sixth among 22 highest burden TB countries in the world. WHO estimates that approximately 570000 people are currently suffering from TB disease in the south Asian country. Every year more than 300,000 people develop TB and 66,000 TB-related deaths occur in Bangladesh alone. This treatable disease is becoming one of the major silent killers in the world.
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Nov. 25, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - HARUN MIAH, who has been suffering from TB for 3 months, receives daily injections and has a tube put into his infected lung to drain it. Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide public health problem.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - AYESHA, 12, was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) 5 months ago and is in MDR TB (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis) stage. The incident of TB is much higher in developing countries such as Bangladesh.
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November 8, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SURUZ ALI, 25, sits in his non-paying sick ward at the National Institute of Diseases Hospital. He has been in the hospital for the last six months and has been suffering from Tuberculosis (TB)since 2012. He takes medicine at home to be cured from MDR TB (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis), but he did not continue to take it. He has now returned to the hospital.
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Dec. 15, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide public health problem. The incident of TB is much higher in developing countries such as Bangladesh. The country ranks sixth among 22 highest burden TB countries in the world.
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Sept. 27, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - RAHIM, a rickshaw puller from the highly concentrated industrial area of Hazaribagh is suffering from acute tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide public health problem. The incidence of TB is much higher in developing countries such as Bangladesh.
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Sept. 27, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - ASIM, 25, from Chittagong, sits in hospital bed. He has been in the hospital for the last six months and has been suffering from Tuberculosis (TB) since 2013.
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Sept. 27, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - ASIM, 25, from Chittagong, sits in a hospital bed. He has been in the hospital for the last six months and has been suffering Tuberculosis (TB) since 2013. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 570000 people are currently suffering from TB disease in Bangladesh.
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Dec. 15, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Every year more than 300,000 people develop Tuberculosis (TB) and 66,000 TB-related deaths occur in Bangladesh.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - RUBIA, 35, was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) 6 months ago and now she is in MDR TB (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis) stage.
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Dec. 15, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - NASIMA AKHTER (40), lives near Hazaribagh industrial area, suffering from Tuberculosis.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - SUKUR MIAH, 45, sits in a hospital bed, suffering from acute breathing problems.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - ALI AKBAR is from Lakhipur distict and has been suffering from Tuberculosis (TB) for 6 months. He receives daily injections and has a tube put into his infected lung to drain it.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - ARAFAT, 1, suffers from Tuberculosis (TB) at National Institute of Diseases of Chest and Hospital.
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Nov. 19, 2014 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - A patient suffers from Tuberculosis (TB) at National Institute of Diseases of Chest and Hospital.
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Jan. 5, 2015 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - MAMOTAZ, 8, was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB). TB is a worldwide public health problem. Every year more than 300,000 people develop TB and 66,000 TB-related deaths occur in Bangladesh.
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