DOH to boost campaign vs tuberculosis

16 in Yakima County sick with tuberculosis

More than a dozen in Yakima County are sick with tuberculosis, reported The Yakima Herald-Republic. According to the Yakima Health District, there are 16 active cases of the disease in Yakima County. Compare that to 2023, when there were only two cases of tuberculosis in Yakima County, as shown by Washington State Department of Health (DOH) data. “It’s a large number compared to what we normally would be managing,” Melissa Sixberry, director of …

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DOH to boost campaign vs tuberculosis

THE Department of Health (DOH) said that many tuberculosis patients in the Philippines remain unreported and untreated, noting 100,237 identified patients either failed to return for treatment or were not properly diagnosed. For 2024, the Integrated TB Information System recorded 575,770 cases in the Philippines while the World Health Organization logged 739,000. The DOH said it would intensify efforts to locate TB patients to ensure they comple…

During 2024 136 new cases of the disease were detected in the area A total of 136 new cases of tuberculosis were recorded during 2024 in the region of Antofagasta. This was reported by the Health Seremi (S), Leonor Castillo, who warned that Antofagasta remains among the three regions of the country with the highest incidence of the disease. “TB is not eradicated from our country. More than 2,500 cases are detected each year at the national level…

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Rising TB cases, deaths in Americas

—PAHO urges Region to harness power of technology to reverse trend Kaieteur News- While tuberculosis (TB) cases continue to rise in the Americas, new innovations promise improvements in early diagnosis and treatment In the Region of the Americas, cases of TB have increased by 20% over the past decade, and deaths have also shown an […] The post Rising TB cases, deaths in Americas appeared first on Kaieteur News.