World Rates

I recently noticed I am getting traffic from people in all parts of the world. For today's post, I think it would be a great idea to focus on regions and countries that have a high TB prevalence. By knowing if you live in a highly TB infected area, you can check to see if you have been exposed, and medicate or prevent if needed.

Below is a table of world regions and the TB incident rates from the World Health Sciences website (http://www.worldhealthsciences.com/). The table breaks information into particular world regions and the number and percentage of people exposed to TB.

World Region	Number (in thousands)	% of Global	Total TB Mortality Per 100,000 of Population
South East Asia	2,993	34%	31.0
Africa	2,529	29%	74.0
Western Pacific	1,927	22%	17.0
Eastern Mediterranean	565	6%	21.0
Europe	445	5%	7.4
The Americas	352	4%	5.5
Global	8,811	100%	24.0

Some of the most infected countries are below.
India
China
Indonesia
South Africa
Brazil
Thailand
Philippines

Happy Friday to you all. Go forth, readers, in good health.

Editor's note: That's a really good point, Dad. As a general statement, though, I would say the numbers having to do with TB in Africa could be more due to the relatively higher HIV/AIDS cases than pretty much all the other countries. According to an article I found on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, by UNAIDS, (http://data.unaids.org/pub/EPISlides/2007/2007_epiupdate_en.pdf) the African Sub-Saharan region is the most seriously affected HIV/AIDS region. This report also shows of some of the top 30 HIV/AIDS infected countries in the world, 22 of those are African countries.
So, while there is high TB numbers in Africa possibly due to HIV/AIDS outbreak, I would say, in my opinion, the rest of the world's numbers come from a high exposure rate due to a prevalence of the TB virus.