WHO: 26% of all Tuberculosis cases are in India

[American_Millenium]

India accounted for 26% of total TB cases globally: WHO

Geneva: Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.3 million people worldwide in 2012, while India alone accounted for 26% of total TB cases globally, the WHO said on Wednesday as it expressed concern over drug-resistant forms of the disease.

The “Global tuberculosis report 2013” released in Geneva found that global TB deaths decreased to 1.3 million in 2012, which is 100,000 less than the previous year.

Approximately 75% of total TB deaths occurred in the African and South-East Asia Regions in 2012.

India and South Africa accounted for about one-third of global TB deaths, the report said.

The report also found that the number of people ill with TB fell to 8.6 million in 2012. The largest number of incident cases in 2012 were India (2.0 million-2.4 million), China (0.9 million-1.1 million) and South Africa (0.4 million-0.6 million), the report said.

The majority of TB cases worldwide in 2012 were in the South-East Asia (29%), African (27%) and Western Pacific (19%) regions.

India also accounted for 31% of the estimated 2.9 million missed TB cases — people who were either not diagnosed or diagnosed but not reported to National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTPs), the report said.

WHO also expressed concern over multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) which claimed 170,000 lives in 2012.

The agency estimates that 450,000 people fell ill with (MDR-TB) last year, with the highest burden in China, India and the Russian Federation.

The report also revealed that between 1995 and 2012, 56 million people were successfully treated for TB in countries that had adopted WHO’s global TB strategy, saving 22 million lives.

The new data confirm that the world is on track to meet the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of reversing TB incidence, along with the target of a 50% reduction in the mortality rate by 2015 (compared to 1990), the report said. “Quality TB care for millions worldwide has driven down TB deaths,” said Dr Mario Raviglione, WHO director of the Global TB Programme.

“But far too many people are still missing out on such care and are suffering as a result. They are not diagnosed, or not treated, or information on the quality of care they receive is unknown,” Raviglione said in a statement.

India accounted for 26% of total TB cases globally: WHO - Livemint

 

[shuttler]

Frightening!
multidrug-resistant TB are nigtmares!

Dont blame tourists who are not going to india. This is one of the reasons.
Actually the case in the failed state is a lot worse when you lump together other contagious diseases like leprosy etc.

Leprosy continues to haunt India, social stigma remains
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Though in 2005 leprosy was eliminated (having less than 1 patient per 10,000 population), now it has the world’s highest burden of disease, accounting for close to 58 per cent of the cases in the world

We have 1 million infected TB patients and MDR-TB patients too. Totally unacceptable！

For Trolls, dont talk about avian flu in China. We are making progress in the development of the vaccines:

Initial work on vaccine for H7N9 bird flu strain completed: official
Global Times - Xinhua | 2013-8-16 0:23:01
By Global Times – Xinhua

Taiwan vows to develop first vaccine against fatal H7N9 avian flu
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, October 14, 2013 19:25 EDT

 

[American_Millenium]

Frightening!
multidrug-resistant TB are nigtmares!

Dont blame tourists who are not going to india. This is one of the reasons.
Actually the case in the failed state is a lot worse when you lump together other contagious diseases like leprosy etc.



We have 1 million infected TB patients and MDR-TB patients too. Totally unacceptable！

For Trolls, dont talk about avian flu in China. We are making progress in the development of the vaccines:

Initial work on vaccine for H7N9 bird flu strain completed: official
Global Times - Xinhua | 2013-8-16 0:23:01
By Global Times – Xinhua

Taiwan vows to develop first vaccine against fatal H7N9 avian flu
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, October 14, 2013 19:25 EDT

No surprise that Indians are still struggling with diseases we thought we had eradicated.

 

[shuttler]

No surprise that Indians are still struggling with diseases we thought we had eradicated.

there is something fundamentally wrong there.

they claim polio has been eradicated. Judging from some of their habits which are utterly UNDESIRABLE in so many of other parts of the world but still highly glorified in india and on forums, I bet there will be a resurgency of the disease.

How soon shall we see the realization of their bragging of demographic dividends before we can see a huge liability or disasters that will impact, not only on india, but on the other parts of the world on catastrophic scales!

 

[IndoCarib]

No surprise that Indians are still struggling with diseases we thought we had eradicated.

Eradicated !?? How shamelessly you continue to embarass yourself.
A total of 9,945 TB cases were reported in the United States in 2012.

And did you read the rest of the article ? Or do you have disease of seeing only India ?? I see India :p

The largest number of incident cases in 2012 were India (2.0 million-2.4 million), China (0.9 million-1.1 million) and South Africa (0.4 million-0.6 million), the report said.

 

[kurup]

Eradicated !?? How shamelessly you continue to embarass yourself.
A total of 9,945 TB cases were reported in the United States in 2012.

And did you read the rest of the article ? Or do you have disease of seeing only India ?? I see India :p

The largest number of incident cases in 2012 were India (2.0 million-2.4 million), China (0.9 million-1.1 million) and South Africa (0.4 million-0.6 million), the report said.

He must have posted the article after reading just the headline ........

 

[American_Millenium]

Eradicated !?? How shamelessly you continue to embarass yourself.
A total of 9,945 TB cases were reported in the United States in 2012.

And did you read the rest of the article ? Or do you have disease of seeing only India ?? I see India :p

The largest number of incident cases in 2012 were India (2.0 million-2.4 million), China (0.9 million-1.1 million) and South Africa (0.4 million-0.6 million), the report said.

So apparently Indians are no longer ashamed of being numba-1 in the worst things possible. As long as there are other people on the list you're all too happy to forget about it.

 

[IndoCarib]

So apparently Indians are no longer ashamed of being numba-1 in the worst things possible. As long as there are other people on the list you're all too happy to forget about it.

Your post implied there are no TB anywhere else in the world. Even the US, the most powerful, economically and technologically advanced country has it. And China the next most powerful, economically and technologically advanced country has millions of it. India is nowhere close to these as you yourself often scream! So no we are not ashamed !

 

[me_itsme]

lol that stupid excuse for a human being does not read any articles just posts them after seeing "India" and anything negative in it.

 

[American_Millenium]

Your post implied there are no TB anywhere else in the world. Even the US, the most powerful, economically and technologically advanced country has it. And China the next most powerful, economically and technologically advanced country has millions of it. India is nowhere close to these as you yourself often scream! So no we are not ashamed !

Did you just try to compare 10,000 to 2 million? 1 out of every 4 cases is in INDIA alone. Maybe you guys can make it to 1 in 3 and then you'll start to feel a little sick.