Filmmaker Jezza Neumann and his crew interviewed Tuberculosis patients during 15 minute intervals at Swaziland hospitals, where the disease is common and feared enough to carry a stigma like HIV. Neumann reports back on Think at noon with host Krys Boyd, ahead of TB Silent Killer's airing on 四虎影院 TV tomorrow at 9 p.m.
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In the U.S., TB is widely assumed to be an antiquated, irrelevant concern. It's not.
Here's why:
It鈥檚 the second-leading cause of death from an infectious disease on the planet.
A study out today estimates
In South Africa,
Though U.S. cases have steadily declined since a resurgence peak in the early '90s, people still die from the disease in this country. There were 569 reported deaths from the disease in 2010
TB cases and deaths are tied to high levels of poverty.
This is not reserved to remote parts of the world where poor people live. In 2010, Gary Woo of the Dallas County Health Department that Dallas County has 50 percent more cases than the national average. In 2012, the county in the number of cases in Texas.
Our state is also vulnerable to the disease since it's a border state. A shows physicians picked up more than 1,100 cases in prospective immigrants and refugees prior to their arrival in the U.S.
The social perception of TB is a major problem in other parts of the world.
On the occasion of World TB Day, an editorialist in Nepal reminded readers people still because they're ashamed.
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