Regional Fact Sheets

Tuberculosis Update
24 March 2009

Tuberculosis is an ancient infectious disease. It probably has killed more people than any other disease in history. Some 2 billion people globally are infected with the TB bacilli, and 10% of those p...
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Tuberculosis
23 March 2007

TB infection and TB disease TB is a lung disease that spreads through the air, just like a common cold. When an infectious person sneezes, coughs or even talks, TB germs - known as bacilli - enter...
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Health, poverty and MDG
June 2005

About 1 billion people globally live in extreme poverty on an income of just $1 a day, of whom 700 million live in Asia and the Pacific. Many of the poor lack access to basic health services. The Mil...
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TB Facts and Figures
24 March 2005

The SituationTuberculosis is one of man's deadly diseases. It has probably killed more people than any other disease in history. And it still kills. In WHO's Western Pacific Region, TB is the leading ...
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WORLD STOP TB DAY Fact Sheet for the Media
WR/FS/STB
24 March 2005

TB Infection and TB Disease TB is a lung disease that spreads through the air, just like a common cold. When an infectious person sneezes, coughs or even talks, TB germs - known as bacilli - ente...
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