T UBERCULOSIS is the major health problem in Alaska. Table 1 (Alaska's Health, 1955) compares active tuberculosis newly reported per 100,000 population in the United States and its Territories for 1954. The records of the Division of Tuberculosis Control, Alaska Department of Health, prior to 1954 do not contain a breakdown of bone and joint, pulmonary, and other forms of tuberculosis. Durin...

T uberculosis (TB) continues to pose a public-health threat to the people of the member states of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). EU/EEA countries comprise Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the ...

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]1”uberculosis remains a public health problem in several circumstances in the U.S. even today, due largely to the ability of M tuberculosis to persist for decades in healthy persons. It manifests most commonly as sporadic disease in elderly persons infected years before. In Arkansas, for example, more than 50 percent of our new cases are patients over the age of 65. When the disease appears in...

I UBERCULOSIS of the heart is not a common condition. It is very often an autopsy finding, which clinically was of little or no importance, being but a part of a generalised tuberculous infection. Sixteen examples of cardiac tuberculosis were found among the records of 3,500 cases post-mortemed in the Institute of Pathology in the last ten years, an incidence of only 4.6 per 1,000. Of these six...

Dissemination of Knowledge to the Physician and Public in Tuberculosis Control T UBERCULOSIS IS STILL A DISEASE THAT people " catch " from one another. In the United States and a number of other countries, tuberculosis death rates have been reduced as much as 98 per cent since 1900. However, it still is the leading cause of death among infectious diseases caused by a single class of germ. The W...

uberculosis (tb) has, from ancient times, ranked among the most feared and dreaded of the many diseases that afflict mankind. Over a century since Mycobacterium tuberculosis was discovered and more than 50 years after effective drug treatment was introduced, tb remains a major public health problem. It is now five years since the World Health Organization (who) took the unprecedented step of de...