Ministry of Public Health discloses tuberculosis figures, with as many as 86,000 new cases each year.

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: General News - The Ministry of Public Health has disclosed that it found as many as 86,000 new tuberculosis patients each year, whereas the number of tuberculosis patients' worldwide amounted to more than 2 billion, in which the majority of them were found in AIDS patients.

Public Health Minister Suchai Charoenrattanakul has revealed the situation of tuberculosis, saying the disease was responsible for many sickness and deaths in many countries worldwide. The World Health Organization stated that 1 out of 3 of the world's population, or about 2 billion people, had tuberculosis. Meanwhile, new patients increased by 8.4 …