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Nearly 120,000 new cases of TB in China ever year
Updated: 2013-04-19 16:25
By Shan Juan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Heavily burdened by rising multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis, China now has nearly 120,000 new cases on the mainland each year, according to public health experts.
That accounts for 25 percent of the world's total per year, according to statistics from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
...With no effective intervention, the number of MDR-TB patients in China is expected to reach 710,000 on the mainland by 2020, which would incur an economic loss of more than 99 billion yuan mostly in medical treatment, he said, citing previous studies by CDC.
"That might upset social stability and harm economic development of the nation," he said...
Nearly 120,000 new cases of TB in China ever year
Updated: 2013-04-19 16:25
By Shan Juan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Heavily burdened by rising multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis, China now has nearly 120,000 new cases on the mainland each year, according to public health experts.
That accounts for 25 percent of the world's total per year, according to statistics from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
...With no effective intervention, the number of MDR-TB patients in China is expected to reach 710,000 on the mainland by 2020, which would incur an economic loss of more than 99 billion yuan mostly in medical treatment, he said, citing previous studies by CDC.
"That might upset social stability and harm economic development of the nation," he said...