TB timelines – The Hindu (May 12, 2017)
Nearly two months after the Health Ministry set the ambitious target of working towards elimination of tuberculosis by 2025, a study published in The Lancet indicates that India’s TB crisis is…. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
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Word List-1:
- ambitious (adjective) – determined, aggressive; challenging.
- snowball (verb) – increase rapidly.
- fluoroquinolone (noun) – an antibiotic drug used to treat systematic diseases.
- alarming (adjective) – worrying, disturbing, troubling.
- projection (noun) – expectation, forecast, prediction.
- strain (noun) – a variety of a microorganism (like bacteria) with different (mostly harmful) characteristics.
- forecast (verb) – predict, augur; speculate.
- intervention (noun) – action taken to improve a (health) disorder.
- screening (noun) – evaluation or investigation.
- regimen (noun) – plan, procedure/practice, process.
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