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2m new TB cases in India last year
Kounteya Sinha, TNN, Nov 15, 2010, 04.21am IST
NEW DELHI: India is saddled with highest burden of tuberculosis ? with nearly 2 million new cases recorded in 2009. Out of an estimated 1.3 million people who died of TB in 2008, the nation alone accounted for 2.8 lakh (280,000 - Ro) lives.
India's case detection was around 67%, while the estimated number of TB cases that had become multi-drug resistant was 99,000 in 2009.
Even though the TB mortality rate has fallen by 35% since 1990, the disease claimed 1.7 million lives last year ? of which 3.8 lakh were women.
According to World Health Organisation's annual report, "Global Tuberculosis Control 2010," around 4,700 die of TB daily. An estimated 9.4 million contracted the disease in 2009 ? the same number as the previous year. However, the incidence of TB was stable, or falling in all 22 countries that have the highest burden of the disease except South Africa.
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Read more: 2m new TB cases in India last year - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...st-year/articleshow/6927227.cms#ixzz15LknYNHy
2m new TB cases in India last year
Kounteya Sinha, TNN, Nov 15, 2010, 04.21am IST
NEW DELHI: India is saddled with highest burden of tuberculosis ? with nearly 2 million new cases recorded in 2009. Out of an estimated 1.3 million people who died of TB in 2008, the nation alone accounted for 2.8 lakh (280,000 - Ro) lives.
India's case detection was around 67%, while the estimated number of TB cases that had become multi-drug resistant was 99,000 in 2009.
Even though the TB mortality rate has fallen by 35% since 1990, the disease claimed 1.7 million lives last year ? of which 3.8 lakh were women.
According to World Health Organisation's annual report, "Global Tuberculosis Control 2010," around 4,700 die of TB daily. An estimated 9.4 million contracted the disease in 2009 ? the same number as the previous year. However, the incidence of TB was stable, or falling in all 22 countries that have the highest burden of the disease except South Africa.
continues at;
Read more: 2m new TB cases in India last year - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...st-year/articleshow/6927227.cms#ixzz15LknYNHy