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Pune: Breast infections resembling TB increasing alarmingly in young healthy women

Emily

Editor, Senior Moderator
Doctors interviewed suspect immune dysfunction, possibly involving hormone imbalances. They say TB has been ruled out so far.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...t-disease-grips-Pune/articleshow/51593694.cms
[h=1]Mysterious breast disease grips Pune[/h] Nozia Sayyed | Pune Mirror | Mar 29, 2016, 08.17 AM IST
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Such infections, seen mostly among lactating mothers, TB patients and diabetics, have now shifted its focus to young females with no history of any disease at all. Doctors claim that in the last five years, such cases have risen by over 50 per cent.

Every month, at least six new cases are detected, compared to five years ago, when only one or two showed up every two months. The age group suffering from this as-yet-undiagnosed infection, too, has gone down. Where before it was mostly women in their 40s, it is now in the 20s and 30s.

What is even more worrying is that doctors and cancer experts are utterly baffled by the infection. Their only certainty is that it is not cancer...
 
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