New York: The World Health Organization has called for a ban on Blood tests designed to detect active TB. The WHO has said that such tests are inaccurate.
More than two million such tests are carried out annually, but the
WHO officials have said that such tests lead to a wrong diagnososi and the ill-treatment of patients. They said that 2 million tets are carried our each year. They claimed that tuberculosis test kits gave wrong results in around 50% of cases.
The kits are mainly sold in the developing world and manufactured in mostly in Europe and North America.
According to Dr Mario Raviglone, the director of the WHO Stop TB Department, the tests must be banned.
“A blood test for diagnosing active TB disease is bad practice. Tests are inconsistent, imprecise and put patients’ lives in danger.” The doctor said.
TB is responsible for around 1.7 million deaths every year and is the biggest cause of death of people living with HIV.
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