Role of Social Media in Greta Thunberg’s Climate and Sustainability Action

Climate change remains a threatening issue to humanity, and lots of people still think of climate change as a growing issue that needs regular measures to curtail it. However, it is not such an easy task to influence a huge mass, but now it has become possible by social media. Because the role played by social media is enormously huge nowadays and many are relying on the internet to gain knowledge, gather data, and socialize. A 16 year old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has used social media to raise her voice against climate change and started her first school strike, Fridays For Future, against this in August 2018 at the Swedish parliament. In propagating this narrative, she uses various social media and digital platforms to attract people and institutions in developing a climate activist movement with a united voice and intention. This chapter reveals Greta’s social media activity, how Greta uses the affordances of social media to frame the climate crisis and to build a worldwide action-based conversation

Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates Including Pre–Extensively Drug-Resistant Strains From Cattle at a Slaughterhouse in Chennai, India

India has the highest global burden of human tuberculosis (TB) and the largest cattle herd with endemic bovine TB (bTB). However, the extent of cross-species transmission and the zoonotic spillover risk, including drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains circulating in cattle, remain uncharacterized

Clinical and diagnostic features of central nervous system tuberculosis in Indian children – a descriptive study

Children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) present with diagnostic challenges as they often have atypical clinical features