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Six million Chinese suffer activity pulmonary tuberculosis

YINCHUAN, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Every year tuberculosis kills about 130,000 Chinese and currently more than six million Chinese are suffering from the activity pulmonary tuberculosis, according to statistics released at a national seminar.

The tuberculosis infection rate once declined for years, but it has begun to increase recently, said Wu Qiqiu from Beijing ...

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