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Article: NEW SPECTRE OF THE WHITE DEATH.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL HANLON
TUBERCULOSIS is once again emerging as a major threat to health in Britain.
A decade ago the deadly lung disease had been virtually eradicated following a campaign of inoculation with the drug BCG.
But now TB, of which a new drug-resistant form has developed, is killing 400 people a year in this country and the number is rising by 12 per cent each year.
Last year, 7,200 contracted drug-resistant TB, and this is likely to rise to 8,000 this year, and 10,000 by the end of 2002.
Within a decade, if the present rate of increase is maintained, thousands of people a year will be dying in Britain of TB.