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They've been saying that since the USSR broke up! apparently a large percentage of prisoners had a new strain that can't be cured, heard nothing more since.
 
On it's way back.

Source - 92% from the Indian Sub-continent
It never really went away. While in the Western world it has been under control for a long time it has never been treated on a Worlwide basis. With the advent of global travel it was bound to return. TB is just one of many diseases for which the drugs to prevent exist but are not given to those who need them by pharmaceutical companies who will only sell to those who can afford them. TB is a disease which usually affect those in overcrowded impoverished communities so these people usually can not afford the treatment.
It is well within the capabilities of medicine to more or less eradicate this and other diseases but there is not the political will to do so.
 
These diseases will come back as the movement of people increases. It's OK having an inoculation program in this country for this and that, but people coming and settling from other countries that don't have similar programs could/will bring problems with them.

Similarly, Newcastle has a bigger HIV problem than Sunderland because their population is more transient - so I was told by a nurse who worked in the clap clinic, a few years back.
 
Do kids still get the bcg, never got mine for medical reasons at the time and thought I'd read somewhere it wasn't being done anymore
 
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