Items tagged with TB epidemiology
PNG facing health emergency with discovery of drug-resistant TB (post)
Health authorities in Papua New Guinea say an almost incurable strain of tuberculosis has been found in the capital Port Moresby.
Bangladesh: TB still a major health problem (post)
Shahidul Islam (45), a resident of Chak Shyamnagar village of Meherpur Sadar upazila, had been suffering from cold, fever, chest pain and weight loss for a month. He took treatment from a local private clinic and then from a hospital in Khulna. He had to spend a lot of money, but his problem was not solved.
UK: Reports of cases of tuberculosis to the National Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance System: 2004 to 2013 (post)
Official statistics: all TB data presented in this report for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is from ETS; data for Scotland is from the Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infections.
Minsk has extremely high levels of drug-resistant TB, a study in Belarus reveals (post)
Resistance to anti-tuberculosis (TB) medicines is a major public health threat in most countries of the former Soviet Union. As no representative and quality-assured information on the magnitude of this problem existed in Belarus, a survey was conducted in the city of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Between November 2009 and December 2010, 156 consecutively diagnosed new and 68 previously treated culture-positive TB patients residing in Minsk were enrolled in the survey.
Tuberculosis rates still high in the UK (post)
Tuberculosis rates in the UK are still unacceptably high. Public Health England notes in its annual UK reportthat 7892 cases of tuberculosis were notified in 2013, a decrease from 8729 cases reported in 2012. However, the incidence of 12·3 cases per 100 000 is still among the highest in western European countries. Another sobering comparison is that the incidence in the UK is four times that of the USA.
Health and health care in South Africa — 20 years after Mandela (post)
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UK tuberculosis cases could exceed US figure within a year (post)
The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in England is set to exceed the number in the US within a year, a leading public health expert has warned.
Tuberculosis: A crisis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that the West cannot ignore (post)
Few young doctors in my own country France would currently wish to specialize in phtisiology. Actually, and for over 30 years, the word "phtisiology" had disappeared from the letterheads of lung diseases divisions in hospitals. The focus of pneumology these days is on chronic lung disease and cancer much more than on tuberculosis (TB).
Tuberculosis could surpass malaria as main killer disease in Uganda (post)
A ministry of health report reveals that cases of tuberculosis are on the rise and there are fears that the disease could soon surpass malaria as the leading disease killing Ugandans.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses global threat, warn doctors (post)
Strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to most of the drugs used to treat them are spreading rapidly across the former Soviet Union and pose a serious global threat, warn doctors.
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