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Vector map from BlankMap-World6, compact.svg by Canuckguy et al. Data from Death and DALY estimates for 2004 by cause for WHO Member States (Persons, all ages) (2009-11-12) Combined by Lokal_Profil
The following groupings/assumptions were made: France includes the overseas departments as well as overseas collectivities. The United Kingdom includes the Crown dependencies as well as the overseas territories.
I made this map, starting with the map outline in BlankMap-World6, compact.svg, and then applying prevalence data taken from Annex 3 of: (2009) Global tuberculosis control: epidemiology, strategy, financing (PDF), World Health Organization Retrieved on 12 November 2009. ISBN: 978 92 4 156380 2. . A copy of the data I extracted is below. Author
Tuberculosis is back to being the leading infectious disease killer across the globe, surpassing COVID-19, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization.. Nearly 8.2 million ...
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Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, [6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. [11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were ...
The U.N. health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by tuberculosis in 2021, a 4.5% rise from the year before. WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected ...
TB outbreaks have been reported in prisons and jails throughout the world, and is particularly concerning in the United States, [25] which incarcerates a larger proportion of its population than any other nation. The prevalence of TB in prisons is much higher than among the general population—in some countries as much as 40 times higher. [26 ...