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LONDON (Reuters) – According to a recent British study, vitamin D supplements can help treat antibacterial drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The study was conducted by researchers from Queen Mary University in London and was published in the latest issue of the European Respiratory Journal.
The World Health Organization estimates that 10 million people have contracted TB and that 1.6 million people have died of the disease worldwide in 2017.
According to them, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis affects about 500,000 people a year and causes 150,000 deaths worldwide. Noting that current treatments for multidrug-resistant TB drugs are expensive and often toxic because of their serious side effects.
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