Oct 5, 2018
THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR--Canada should help fight world tuberculosis crisis
BY BLAIR BIGHAM (FGJ ‘17) - One-third of the world's population is believed to be infected with tuberculosis, which kills nearly 5,000 people each day. It's not just a problem of poor nations; Canada has a TB crisis of its own in the North, where Indigenous populations have a 300 times greater rate of infection than that of other Canadians. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control receives reports of 10,000 new cases each year. READ MORE
