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Article: Tuberculosis Cases Increase in Thailand
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 25, 2002
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Thai Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan warned that the
number of tuberculosis cases was rising as the number of people with
HIV/Aids who contract the disease continued to rise, the Nation
newspaper reported Monday.
Last year, 67,150 tuberculosis cases were reported, with between
80,000 and 100,000 new cases expected to occur each year, Sudarat
said in a statement released March 24, World Tuberculosis Day.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), about eight million
new tuberculosis cases are reported globally each year, and about
three million people die each year from the disease.
In Southeast Asia, as many as 40 ...