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The World Health Organization says widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable.
The United Nations health agency said Sunday it will issue an unprecedented recommendation against using such tests for the infectious lung disease thought to affect 14 million people worldwide.
Blood tests are often used in developing countries such as India, where an estimated 3 million people are infected with the disease.
The director of WHO's Stop TB department, Mario Raviglione, told The Associated Press that the tests are "a waste of money and time, putting proper care at risk."
The guidance to be issued later this week recommends patients continue to be tested using the older sputum microscopy method.
Re: WHO: Blood tests for tuberculosis are unreliable
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WHO: Blood tests for tuberculosis are unreliable
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press ? 20 hours ago
GENEVA (AP) ? Widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable and can produce wrong results, the World Health Organization warned Sunday.
The U.N. health agency said it will issue an unprecedented recommendation against using such tests for the infectious lung disease that affects some 14 million people worldwide. As much as a third of the world's population is thought to harbor the bacteria that causes TB.
"The tests are not reliable and a waste of money and time, putting proper care at risk," said Mario Raviglione, the director of WHO's Stop TB department.
