Fight against TB continues

World TB Day fell on Thursday and is a reminder that tuberculosis remains an epidemic in much of the world causing the death of several million a year, mostly in developing countries.

Statistics from the Ministry of Health reveal that there are 5 million registered TB patients in China. But the number of people that have contracted the TB bacteria has been estimated at 500 million, 45 percent of the total population.

But it is not so much the tuberculosis itself, as the lack of awareness, that poses the real threat to the effective prevention of an epidemic.