Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Tuberculosis in the UK: Being diagnosed with the 'Victorian disease' that 'never went away' (post)
A London Assembly report recently revealed that five boroughs in the capital had higher rates of tuberculosis (TB) than parts of Rwanda, Iraq or Eritrea. And last year, TB Alert recorded 6,520 cases of the disease in the UK - of which almost 40 per cent were in London alone.
North Korea launches first national TB survey (post)
November 18, 2015 - North Korea is conducting its first ever nationwide tuberculosis survey, in an effort to find out how prevalent the disease is in the country, UNICEF said Wednesday.
Fears of drug-resistant TB in Australia after rise in Papua New Guinea cases (post)
There are growing concerns tuberculosis could become untreatable in Australia after a dramatic increase in the number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases recorded in Papua New Guinea.
Union World Conference on Lung Health: Zoonotic TB poses little known threat (post)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – One million people have been infected by mycobacterium bovis over the past decade, scientists said here this week. The zoonotic strain of tuberculosis, acquired from livestock, is clinically indistinguishable from the most common airborne strain, but results in longer, more costly treatments, more drug resistance, and more deaths than mycobacterium tuberculosis, scientists said.
Socio-demographic predictors and distribution of pulmonary tuberculosis in Xinjiang, China: A spatial analysis (post)
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Sequencing study tracks roots of TB emergence to East Africa (post)
NEW YORK, December 10, 2015 – An international team led by investigators in the UK and Spain has garnered genetic evidence that the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis originated in Africa.
Botswana: TB remains challenge (post)
Tuberculosis remains a public health problem in Botswana.
Association between spending on social protection and tuberculosis burden: a global analysis (post)
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Tuberculosis outbreak in Papua New Guinea worsens, as health workers plead for promised funding (post)
Health experts are worried a new superbug may be festering on Australia's doorstep, as a drug-resistant tuberculosis outbreak in the northern Torres Strait continues to worsen.
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