
While most Canadians think of tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of the past or something that people in the 1950s dealt with and solved, for some of our country’s population it remains a very real danger today. The disease, which kills about 1.8 million people worldwide every year, is pretty much non-existent among non-aboriginal Canadians. For Inuit, however, the rate of incidence is almost 200 times greater—and it’s getting worse.
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