The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday stated that the nation’s tuberculosis rates have hit an all time low in its history. The scenario in a few nations does not seem to be good, especially in China and India.

The CTC claimed that tuberculosis cases had declined in the nation by 11.8% last year. It was the largest decline that Government saw since 1953, when it had started monitoring the disease. The WHO reported that an estimated
440,000 people worldwide had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in 2008, and one-third of them lived no more.

India and China have been affected the most, as these two nations have remained vulnerable to the disease. Even in Russia, the conditions aren’t that good.

In total, there were 9.4 million new TB cases in 2008 and 1.8 million deaths, so the drug-resistant injuries are a relatively tiny problem. But experts fear that they will shift the usual strains of TB mycobacterium which would vastly complicate the treatment procedure.

The CDC said there were 11,540 U. S. TB cases reported in 2009. Around 40% of them were the people, born in this country. The rate of disease was 11 times higher in foreign-born. The rates in blacks and Latinos were eight times higher than in whites, and the rate in Asians was 26 times high.