Tuberculosis (TB) has been a treatable disease since the 1950s. Why then are tens of thousands of people getting TB each year in the EU? In the run up to World TB Day (24 March), the EU funded EuroTB network has released data showing that nearly 90,000 TB cases were reported in the EU in 2006. The Stockholm based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published an action plan to better control - and ultimately eliminate - TB in the EU.
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