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. 2008 Nov;116(11):A478-85.
doi: 10.1289/ehp.116-a478.

Linking TB and the environment: an overlooked mitigation strategy

Charles W Schmidt

Linking TB and the environment: an overlooked mitigation strategy

Charles W Schmidt. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Nov.

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  • Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Dec;116(12):A519
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A man suffering from TB arrives at a hospital in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has the sixth greatest TB burden in the world.
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Estimated Incidence of New TB Cases as of 2006
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Percentage of MDR TB among New TB Cases, 1994 – 2007
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Countries with the Most MDR TB among New TB Cases
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Countries with Confirmed Cases of XDR TB as of June 2008
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Arkadiy Yusev, age 23, is a Russian prisoner and TB patient. The disease is rampant in the overcrowded prisons of the Russian Federation, which has the eleventh greatest TB burden in the world.
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Countries with the Greatest TB Burden as of 2006
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For many TB patients, such as this terminally ill woman in Kinshasa, DR Congo, effective drugs are prohibitively expensive. DR Congo has the tenth greatest TB burden in the world.
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