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Mapping a New Course to Defeat Tuberculosis

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Canada’s TB incidence rate was 4.8 cases for every 100,000 people in 2009, a bit better than Australia (6.4 per 100,000) and a bit worse than the U.S. (4.1 per 100,000). …TB in some of Canada’s First Nations communities is far more prevalent. The rate among Aboriginals living on reserves, in fact, is 31 times higher than among non-Aboriginal Canadians, while among the Inuit the rate is 185 times higher… “Tuberculosis is fundamentally a flag for poverty… and that it’s highly prevalent among the reservations and among the Inuit is just the most graphic evidence of the extent of the disparity.”

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