Fresh cases of TB reported in Burma

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Fresh cases of TB reported in Burma

>From The Asian Age
March 9, 2000

Rangoon: There are an estimated 100,000 new tuberculosis cases in Burma
each year but the government is following World Health Organisation
recommendations to decrease the threat, the New Light of Myanmar
reported. About 75 per cent of those infected are people between 15 and
59 years old which is the most active working group, the minister for
health, Major General Ket Sein, told the second national seminar on
tuberculosis. (DPA)