Fighting Tuberculosis: From China to America
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease and a modern day problem. In the early 1900s, TB killed one out of every seven people living in Europe and the United States. Though no longer so frightened in these regions, TB is still a serious global public health threat. According to the 2016 WHO report, in 2015, there were an estimated 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide, 1.0 million (10%) of them were children. People living with HIV accounted for 1.2 million (11%) of all new TB cases [1]. More alarmingly, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) cases are on the rise. In 2015, 3.9% of new and 21% of previously treated TB cases were estimated to have been caused by MDR-TB. In 2014, MDR-TB accounted for only 3.3% of new TB cases.
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