Read how tuberculosis is ravaging lives, killing people in major countries including Nigeria

Tuberculosis is said to be one of the world's deadly diseases across the globe. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared it an emergency challenge that must be tackled frontally so as to save the world population. Austin Oyibode of NAIJ.com examines the deadly disease.Mabel Obi, a 25-year-old graduate of microbiology from the University of Lagos has been suffering from tuberculosis for the past six months. Prior to contracting the disease middle of last year, Mabel was the darling of her home in Abraka, the university town of Delta state. After graduation in 2015, Mabel began her youth service in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state where she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.The disease affected her drastically, reducing her to a shadow of herself. Medical personnel battled to save her, applied all known medical treatment, and referred her to several centres, but efforts to save her life are yet to yield needed results. As at the time of filing this report, Mabel is still struggling with the diseaseas her hope of survival hangs in the balance.Mabel is not the only person in this case. Many others across the country are battling with tuberculosis, a good number of which are unknown who are daily dying in the rural communities in Nigeria. Some, rather than treating tuberculosis are treating malaria and the ailment is taking a worrisome dimension in their lives.This man is a tuberculosis patient. His chance of survival is very slimMany do not know the difference between malaria and tuberculosis, hence the illness must have dealt hard with them before discovering that it is not malaria but tuberculosis. And again, many do not take the right treatment even after discovering it is malaria. And the ailment gets transmitted fromone person to the other as the infected person coughs or drops spittle on the ground.John Abe, a 23-year-old graduate of Delta state university, Abraka, is also suffering from tuberculosis. John graduated from the university and was waiting mobilization for the National Youth Service Corps. She said:“I was working on some projects and conducting research when I took ill.