Open AccessWorld TB day: European countries report over 400,000 tuberculosis cases in 2004
Author(s) -
Dennis Falzon,
J C Desenclos
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.11.12.02928-en
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , european union , european region , soviet union , medicine , environmental health , geography , economic growth , political science , business , international trade , pathology , regional science , politics , economics , law
In 2004, 414 163 tuberculosis cases were notified by 51 of the 52 countries of the World Health Organization European Region, representing 8% of notifications to WHO worldwide in the same year. Seventy per cent of all TB cases in the region were in the 12 countries of the Former Soviet Union