British new drug for tuberculosis

More than 1.7 million people die of the disease

Made a team of experts working at the laboratory of the British Oxford satisfactory results for the detection of a new vaccine for tuberculosis. The experiments were conducted on persons infected with the disease in the Gambia and Cape Town, South Africa. Did not know until now that medical prescription for the vaccine, according to global statistics, the 30% of the world's population is infected with TB, especially in Asia and Africa, as much of the disease in crowded communities and underdeveloped of the world. Statistics indicate that more than 1.7 million people die annually in the world because of the disease. The disease is transmitted through exposure of TB infection, which affects mainly the lungs, and expects that the medical reports until the year 2020 could be one billion people infected with TB.