China - Tuberculosis cases rate "alarming" in Guangdong province for 2015

[sharon sanders]

Number seven months 60,000 cases of TB cases alarming

Source: Express | 2015-08-19 05:34:43 | Author: Li Qiuling

　　Original title: 7 months 60,000 cases staggering number of tuberculosis cases

According to the Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission official website published data consolidation.

　　AIDS, tuberculosis became ranked after the old broad who's second biggest killer B infectious! Data Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission official website of the show, the first seven months of this year, Guangdong incidence of 60,864 cases, 47 cases of death, and last year the incidence the number is 81,498 cases, the number of 109 cases of death, incidence of the first seven months of this year accounted for about 75 percent of last year's incidence.　　Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission data show that it has become the second biggest killer of Class B infectious diseases

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[sharon sanders]

It appears the trend is holding with August 2015 month end numbers:

8,681 tuberculosis cases and 11 deaths.

http://www.gdwst.gov.cn/a/yiqingxx/2015091514306.html

For comparison, August 2014 numbers were:

https://www.gdwst.gov.cn/a/yiqingxx/2014091512149.html