Tuberculosis (TB) caused by bacteria that often, but not always, affects the lungs. The disease is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world. Each year fall ill at least nine million people with tuberculosis and two million die.
In Sweden classified TB as a public health hazard and each case reported to the county medical officer in this county.
Classic symptoms of TB include fever, night sweat, weight loss and fatigue. For pulmonary tuberculosis are persistent cough for more than three weeks with or without expectoration of phlegm and sometimes blood also common.
Overall, it was reported that 835 cases of tuberculosis in Sweden in 2015. It is a increase of 22 percent compared to 2014. Since 2003, the number of cases increased by over 100 per cent (410 cases in 2013).
During the first half of 2016 reported 421 cases of tuberculosis. An increase of eight percent compared to the same period last year, but a decrease of five percent compared with the second half of 2015. Around 90 percent of cases are people who were born abroad.
Source: Public Health Agency
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