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Title: |
Tuberculosis Threat |
| Sub-title: |
Global Response |
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| Edited by: |
Kevin J Brooks, Ryan W Howard |
| ISBN10-13: |
1613245238 : 9781613245231 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
150x230mm |
| Pages: |
197 |
| Weight: |
.424 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - October 2011 |
| List Price: |
143.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Public health & preventive medicine |
| Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world, infecting an average of 9 million people annually. Although TB is curable, close to 2 million TB-related deaths occur each year. Due in part to a growing global response to TB, progress has been made in combating the disease. Globally, new TB infection rates have begun to slowly decline and TB mortality rates have decreased significantly since 1990. At the same time, absolute numbers of people infected with TB, particularly in Asia and Africa, continue to rise. Congress has recognised TB as an important humanitarian issue and increasingly as a potential threat to global security. This book examines the U.S. responses to the global threat of tuberculosis and the international efforts and issues for Congress. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; U.S. Response to the Global Threat of Tuberculosis: Basic Facts; Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): Emerging Public Health Threats & Quarantine & Isolation; Building Partnerships to Control Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis: International Efforts & Issues for Congress; Trends in Tuberculosis, 2009; Testimony of Dr. Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, before the Subcommittee on Africa & Global Health, Hearing on "Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: Assessing the U.S. Response to an Emerging Global Threat"; Index. |
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