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WHO Says Global TB Cases Decline For First Time Ever But Warns Funding Gap, Resistant Strains Put Progress At Risk
New data published in the WHO's 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control Report on Tuesday, "shows that the number of people who fell ill with [tuberculosis (TB)] dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, after peaking at 9 million in 2005," the U.N. News Centre reports. "The report shows that the TB death rate dropped 40 percent between 1990 and 2010, and all regions, except Africa, are on track to achieve a 50 percent decline in mortality by 2015," the news service writes (10/11). "The countries the WHO especially noted for progress in the fight against the disease were Kenya, [Tanzania], Brazil and China," Reuters reports (Selyukh/Ulmer-Nebehay, 10/11).
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