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Soaring rates of tuberculosis reported for children living in London.(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rates of tuberculosis (TB) have risen 130% in children living in London over the past decade, reports a study in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
More TB is being diagnosed in 10- to 16-year-olds than in any other childhood age group. Around 1 million cases of TB are diagnosed in children around the world every year.
Data from the Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre for 1982 to 1998 and the five yearly National Survey results for 1993 and 1998 were used to chart disease trends.
These show that rates of TB notifications in London among children age 16 or younger fell between 1982 and 1988, since when they have risen every year, giving a cumulative rise of 130% by 1998.
In 1998 more than 4 out of 10 children with TB were Black African, compared with ...
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