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Jeddah hits the top spot in rising cases of TB
Last Updated : Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:08 PM
Joud Al-Amri
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH ? A recent study revealed that Jeddah occupied the top place among the Kingdom?s cities for new tuberculosis (TB) cases. The study on the highly contagious bacterial infection was conducted by a group of students and associate professors of the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University here. Jeddah accounted for 28.9 percent of the total number of new TB cases discovered in the country...
...The number of new TB cases in the Kingdom in 2010 reached 4,294 with a ratio of 15.82 cases for every 100,000 people, with an increase of 0.26 for every 100,000 people in 2011.
This increase was attributed to the continuous improvements in registering new cases and reporting them in the country?s regions and governorates.
The percentage of lung TB cases reached 69.61 while non-pulmonary TB cases reached 30.39 percent...
Jeddah hits the top spot in rising cases of TB
Last Updated : Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:08 PM
Joud Al-Amri
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH ? A recent study revealed that Jeddah occupied the top place among the Kingdom?s cities for new tuberculosis (TB) cases. The study on the highly contagious bacterial infection was conducted by a group of students and associate professors of the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University here. Jeddah accounted for 28.9 percent of the total number of new TB cases discovered in the country...
...The number of new TB cases in the Kingdom in 2010 reached 4,294 with a ratio of 15.82 cases for every 100,000 people, with an increase of 0.26 for every 100,000 people in 2011.
This increase was attributed to the continuous improvements in registering new cases and reporting them in the country?s regions and governorates.
The percentage of lung TB cases reached 69.61 while non-pulmonary TB cases reached 30.39 percent...