The World Health Organization, in its first-ever negative policy recommendation, has recently called on governments to immediately ban blood tests prescribed and used to detect?
A
Tuberculosis
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B
Malaria
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C
Hepatitis-B
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D
AIDS
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E
None of the above
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Solution
The correct option is A Tuberculosis Blood tests, commonly used in India to detect tuberculosis (TB), have been banned. The Union health ministry has banned the import of sero-diagnostic kits, saying it is giving inconsistent and imprecise results leading to wrong diagnosis of the deadly air-borne disease.