The high rate of TB cases in Lohata is unusual, even for India, where the disease kills about 300,000 people every year.
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A doctor attends to Anwar, 4, infected with tuberculosis at the Kashi Vidyapith hospital in Kotawa near Varanasi, India. Tuberculosis remains a stubborn problem in India, which has more than a quarter of the world’s new TB cases. Children are especially at risk. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo -
Rama Shanker sleeps in the sun inside the complex of Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Hospital at Ram Nagar in Varanasi. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo -
Neha, 11, sits in the sun with her mother Jehana outside Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Hospital at Ram Nagar in Varanasi. The disease kills about 300,000 people every year in the country. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo -
A man has an x-ray taken of his chest for diagnosis of tuberculosis. India saw the greatest increase in multidrug-resistant TB between 2011 and 2012. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo -
Nurses help the tuberculosis patient Manjeet Mishra, 18, walk towards his ward at Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Hospital in Varanasi. Another factor contributing to TB’s growing drug resistance: many patients, weary of TB drugs’ harsh side effects, stop their treatment once they feel better instead of taking the full course. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo
In pictures: India’s tuberculosis epidemic hits Uttar Pradesh village
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