TB rates explode in London: ‘We stopped screening people for this disease’…(Our Future!!)

Thursday, October 29, 2015
By Paul Martin

RT.com
29 Oct, 2015

Tuberculosis is a disease of today but we need to make sure that it doesn’t become a disease of tomorrow, says Dr. Onkar Sahota, Chair of the London Assembly Health Committee.
Incredibly, there are areas of London that report higher tuberculosis rates than countries such as Rwanda and Iraq. A report by the London Assembly revealed there were more than 2,500 new cases of TB in London last year, which is about 40 percent of the UK’s total.

RT: Why is the situation so bad in London?

Onkar Sahota: I think one the worrying things is that in one word the reason we took our eyes of the ball; we stopped screening people and I think in 1987 we had something like 5,000 cases in the year in UK. And in 2012 we had 9,000. We stopped screening people for this disease. And what we need to make sure and remember: this is not disease that has gone by. It is a disease of today, but we need to make sure that it isn’t a disease of tomorrow.

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