TB Rising in Young Professionals: Don't Dismiss That Persistent Cough

TB spreads to colleagues and family members when young adults delay diagnosis through self-medication, increasing infection risk in workplaces and households.

Tuberculosis, once associated with the elderly and the immunocompromised, is quietly finding new ground among young urban professionals in their twenties and thirties — people who ride crowded metros, breathe polluted air, and work in shared spaces. The disease does not announce itself dramatically; it arrives as a cough that lingers, a fever that seems minor, a fatigue that feels like overwork. What makes this moment particularly consequential is not just the biology of infection, but the cultural habit of self-diagnosis and delay — a habit that allows a treatable disease to deepen its hold a

TB Rising in Young Professionals: Don't Dismiss That Persistent Cough

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