TB spreading in Marshall Islands
MAJURO: Tuberculosis has reached ?alarming? levels in the Marshall Islands despite aggressive attempts to detect and treat the deadly disease, a specialist said. Some 126 new cases were recorded in the Pacific island nation of 60,000 people last year, statistics released by the Ministry of Health showed.
?It?s alarming,? said tuberculosis consultant Subroto Banerji from the US Center for Disease Control. Banerji said the figures were up from 121 new cases the previous year.
MAJURO: Tuberculosis has reached ?alarming? levels in the Marshall Islands despite aggressive attempts to detect and treat the deadly disease, a specialist said. Some 126 new cases were recorded in the Pacific island nation of 60,000 people last year, statistics released by the Ministry of Health showed.
?It?s alarming,? said tuberculosis consultant Subroto Banerji from the US Center for Disease Control. Banerji said the figures were up from 121 new cases the previous year.
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