Tuberculosis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text==== North America ==== In the United States, [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] have a fivefold greater mortality from TB,<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Birn AE |title= Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World |year= 2009 |page= 261 |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-988521-3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2XBB4-eYGZIC&pg=PT261 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150906213750/https://books.google.com/books?id=2XBB4-eYGZIC&pg=PT261 |archive-date= 6 September 2015 }}</ref> and racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 84% of all reported TB cases.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|url=https://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/surv/surv2012/slides/surv12.htm|title=CDC Surveillance Slides 2012 – TB|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109150519/http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/surv/surv2012/slides/surv12.htm|archive-date=9 November 2013|date=24 October 2018|access-date=17 September 2017}}</ref> The overall tuberculosis case rate in the United States was 3 per 100,000 persons in 2017.<ref name="Global tuberculosis report 2018"/> In Canada, tuberculosis was endemic in some rural areas as of 1998.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102188560.html|title=Rural outbreaks of ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' in a Canadian province|journal=Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother|year=1998|volume=38|page=555 |id=abstract no. L-27|vauthors=Al-Azem A, Kaushal Sharma M, Turenne C, Hoban D, Hershfield E, MacMorran J, Kabani A|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118161808/http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102188560.html |archive-date=18 November 2011 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page