The number of tuberculosis (TB) patients in Tibet Autonomous Region has been rising by 5,000 each year, with infectious patients accounting for 30 percent of the total, reported China’s official Xinhuanet news service Mar 25.The report quoted Dorje Gyaltsen, director of the TAR Center for Disease Control (CDC), as saying, "Farmers and herders in Tibet account for 90 percent of the TB patients."
China ranks second in the world in the number of TB patients and the TAR has a high TB incidence, Tibet Business was cited a reporting. "This year Jiangtang Township in Shannan Prefecture, southeastern Tibet is selected as one of the 176 TB sample survey places in the country," an official of the Regional CDC was quoted as saying.