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Is TB Australia’s problem? Maybe not long from now.

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I wrote this three years ago.  Have things gotten better? By SUSAN MERRELL TODAY, SUNDAY 24 MARCH [2013], is World Tuberculosis Day. In Australia, tuberculosis (TB) has largely been eradicated and is at a negligible incidence of six cases for every 100,000 of population. So, apart from humanitarian considerations for countries less fortunate, why should TB concern Australia? It’s said that one can walk from Australia to Papua New Guinea at low tide, and PNG has a staggeringly high incidence of 346 TB cases per 100,000, with numbers rising. (There has been a 42% increase in the last decade.) Furthermore, Continue reading Is TB Australia’s problem? Maybe not long from now.→

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Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”

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By PNG Echo This writer is a non-medical, interested observer, of Tuberculosis (TB) who, having been expertly informed by leading global medicos and researchers (as an invited fellow of the National Press Foundation to the World Conference on Lung Health 2012 in Kuala Lumpur) and who having witnessed, first hand, its devastation in the district of Goilala, Central Province, has been been writing about it ever since. In particular, I have bothered, cajoled, shamed (tried to) and bullied everyone and anyone I could with the purpose of getting a ‘GeneXpert’ diagnostic machine for the remote clinic in Tapini, Goilala in Continue reading Tuberculosis: I hate to say it but… “I told you so…it was a no brainer”→

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