Health officials met in Boston for a two day World Conference on Lung Health. In parts of Africa, where AIDS has been a health risk, tuberculosis is running rampant. The combination of the four is catastrophic. Within the United States there has been a five percent increase in the number of reported cases, but the numbers vary widely from state to state. No new cases were reported in Wyoming for all of 1989. Newark, New Jersey saw a 35 percent increase in tuberculosis, and in New York City there has been a 150 percent increase among blacks.
Health officials met in Boston for a four day World Conference on Lung Health. In parts of Africa, where AIDS has been a health risk, tuberculosis is running rampant. The combination of the two is catastrophic. Within the United States there has been a five percent increase in the number of reported cases, but the numbers vary widely from state to state. No new cases were reported in Wyoming for all of 1989. Newark, New Jersey saw a 35 percent increase in tuberculosis, and in New York City there has been a 150 percent increase among blacks.