TB cases fall, but strain is resisting

Oakland Tribune;  March 24, 2006 ;   Rebecca Vesely, STAFF WRITER;   544 words ......including Alameda -- saw an uptick in TB cases over last year. California has the highest number of TB cases of any state, with a total of 2,900 cases...the 20 cities nationwide with the most TB cases are in California, including Oakland...

TB cases dropping but fear persists

Oakland Tribune;  March 24, 2006 ;   Rebecca Vesely, STAFF WRITER;   576 words ......Alameda and San Mateo -- saw an uptick in TB cases over last year. California has the highest number of TB cases of any state, with a total of 2,900 cases...the 20 cities nationwide with the most TB cases are in California, including Oakland...

TB cases dropping, but fear persists

Oakland Tribune;  March 24, 2006 ;   Rebecca Vesely, STAFF WRITER;   543 words ......Mateo and Alameda -- saw an uptick in TB cases over last year. California has the highest number of TB cases of any state, with a total of 2,900 cases...the 20 cities nationwide with the most TB cases are in California, including Oakland...

TB CASES CONTINUE DECLINE IN CALIFORNIA; STATE OBSERVES CALIFORNIA STOP TB...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 20, 2007 ;     617 words ......press release: The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in California dropped by 4.2 percent last...experiencing the lowest number of total TB cases ever, but we must not become complacent...decline and address multidrug-resistant TB cases." Approximately 30 to 40 new ...

TB Cases Rise as Attention Shifted to AIDS

Xinhua English Newswire;  October 27, 1997 ;     306 words ...Tanzania's tuberculosis (TB) cases have increased sharply as more attention...that at least one third of Tanzania's TB cases are indirectly attributable to HIV...control program was swamped with new TB cases," it said. Whereas the global average...

TB cases fall in 2002 in Cambodia

Xinhua News Agency;  February 27, 2003 ;     183 words ...TB cases fall in 2002 in Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Feb...Agency. Study teams in 2002 recorded 24,710 TB cases, of which 17,258 had died. The WHO estimates...countries" with the highest incidence of TB cases in the world, a group that could see the...

Ga. TB Cases Drop for 2nd Straight Year

AP Online;  December 9, 2003 ;     225 words ......Public Health reported there were 533 TB cases in 2002, an 8 percent decrease from the...their treatments. But the division said TB cases still are rising in some parts of metro...they also were concerned by increases of TB cases among the state's foreign born, who now...

Tanzania reports 63,687 new TB cases in 2004

Xinhua News Agency;  March 18, 2005 ;     157 words ...Tanzania reports 63,687 new TB cases in 2004 DAR ES SALAAM, March 18 (Xinhua...Tanzania's mainland have reported 63,687 new TB cases and the number is set to rise as soon...contributes about 60 percent of the increase of TB cases in the country where two million people...

Number of TB cases in country drops to lowest level since 1950s But public...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 25, 1997 ;     362 words ......the disease, saying that was what made TB cases surge in the 1980s after a long decline...reported. Last year's nationwide count of new TB cases was 21,327, down nearly 7% from 1995...symptoms are gone. From 1985 to 1992, TB cases rose almost 20%, said Charles Felton...

Number of TB cases may not be a one-time spike.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  June 8, 2004 ;   Pyke, Marni;   319 words ......said. In 2000 and 2001, the county had 48 TB cases. That number dipped in 2002 to 32. Tuberculosis...immigrants have accounted for a majority of TB cases, though that pattern is shifting somewhat...aging population. In 2002, 87 percent of TB cases were found in foreign-born DuPage ...

TB Cases, Deaths Up Worldwide

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 18, 1995 ;   Laurie Garrett;   201 words ......for Disease Control and Prevention. Worldwide, the number of TB cases is expected to increase from 7.5 million in 1990 to nearly...and 3.5 million of them will die. About 95 percent of all new TB cases occur in developing countries, with the highest infection rates...

Association of TB, HIV linked to increase in TB cases in Zimbabwe

Xinhua News Agency;  December 16, 2002 ;     336 words ...Association of TB, HIV linked to increase in TB cases in Zimbabwe HARARE, Dec. 16 (Xinhua...seriously ill than before. "The number of new TB cases has risen since 1990 and the overwhelming...Zimbabwe, the notification rate of new TB cases had declined steadily starting in the...

Philippines ranks 8th in TB cases worldwide

Xinhua News Agency;  February 26, 2004 ;     243 words ...Philippines ranks 8th in TB cases worldwide MANILA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua...Pacific Region so far as tuberculosis (TB) cases are concerned. Each day, about 75...people infected -- two billion; new TB cases -- 8.6 million; new positive TB cases...

As TB Cases Rise, So Does Treatment, WHO Reports

The Washington Post;  March 24, 2004 ;   David Brown;   779 words ......together have 80 percent of the world's TB cases are meeting with donor agencies, charitable...international goal of detecting 70 percent of all TB cases by 2005 -- and curing 85 percent of them...substantial progress in finding and treating TB cases in recent years, the report ...

TB cases rising among immigrants

AP Online;  April 9, 1998 ;   CHELSEA J. CARTER Associated Press Writer;   312 words ......overall drop came after a dramatic surge in TB cases from the mid-1980s through 1992. The CDC said 19,855 TB cases were reported in the United States in...estimated that 10 percent to 15 percent of all TB cases are among people infected with the AIDS...