According to that site, NE, U.S. deaths from tuberculosis are declining, from 1,112 in 1998 to 749 in 2001. But that deals with deaths, not reported cases.
This site gives an idea of reported cases per country worldwide but unfortunately I don't see a year anywhere on it, so can't say how recent those stats are. But no matter how recent, they are still alarming. (U.S. by the way is at the bottom, with 1 per 100,000 reported.)
Bolivia is at 116, Ecuador and Peru both 94, Dominican Republic 88, Guatemala 48, Honduras 46, Brazil 44, Paraguay 43, El Salvador 36, Nicaragua 35, Argentina 30, Colombia 29, Panama 28, Venezuela 22, Mexico 19. The United States gets immigrants from all of those countries and those figures are astounding when you realize that the United States, with a population in excess of 300 million, is rated at only 1 per 100,000.
Bolivia has a population of just more than 9.2 million people, yet it reports 116 cases per 100,000 people!
But just as they did when they guesstimated 90,000 U.S. deaths from swine flu this fall, the government is again going off half-crocked claiming that circumcision aids in the reduction of the spread of disease.
They'd do better to concentrate more on an anti-unprotected-sex advertising campaign.
What about all the good single guys out there who are uncircumsized? If the government begins a campaign to scare everyone, they'll never get a date!
The article Cricket posted includes this: "Specifically, they maintain that any method to prevent the spread of HIV is a step in the right direction."
Yeah? So killing people who are HIV-positive would be a step in the right direction?
I'm afraid those people would strongly disagree with that, just like many parents being forced to have their newborn sons circumsized.
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