Focused screening of new residents is key to fight TB in Canada

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tuberculosis (TB) caused 1.3 million deaths in 2022 and is still very much present in many countries. In Canada, where foreign-born residents bear 80 percent of the burden of TB, the annual incidence rate is close to 5 cases per 100,000 persons, far from the WHO’s goal to reduce it to one case per million inhabitants.

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