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Preliminary Data Show 30 Percent Drop in Infectious Tuberculosis

by sidet on February 3, 2012

in Health

The tuberculosis patient
The doctor is explaining the patient about how to take TB medicine correctly

The number of cases of infectious tuberculosis in the country dropped by about 30 percent between 2002 and 2010, according to preliminary result from a study conducted by the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control.

Data show that between 2002 and 2010, the prevalence rate of the infectious from of tuberculosis fell from 269 cases per 100,000 people to less than 200 per 100,000 people, Said Dr. Mao Tan Eang, director of the TB Center.

“We have had a big reduction of tuberculosis, but Cambodia is still among the 22 countries with the highest burden of TB,” Dr. Tan Eang said.

Out of the 22 countries identified in a World Health Organization (WHO) report last year, Cambodia had the second highest estimated prevalence of all infectious, and noninfectious, forms of the disease at rates of 660 per 100,000 people in 2010. [Read full article…]

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