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Thailand ranks the world’s No 18 for high incidence of TB infection

The World Health Organisation has put Thailand the world’s No 18 ranking for high incidence of tuberculosis infection from the previous No 22 ranking, Dr Songkram Sapcharoen, chairman of the central committee of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, said at a national conference on TB on Wednesday.

Besides the worsening TB situation, he said that there is also a problem of increasing incidence of drug resistance TB and emphysema, he said.

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