TB risk amid low child vitamin D levels

The potentially lethal lung disease tuberculosis (TB) could be making a comeback across Europe because of dangerously low vitamin D levels in our children.

TB risk amid low child vitamin D levels

The claim has been made in new research into the condition, which caused havoc in Ireland throughout the 19th century and at one point was the cause of death in one out of every seven people in Europe.

A major study to be revealed at the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases annual meeting this week will show that, despite drastic improvements in drugs to fight the illness, TB is making a comeback across the continent.

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