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SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1979
ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, THERE ARE STILL SOME SEVEN MILLION SUFFERERS WITH 500,000 DEATHS AND THREE MILLION NEW CASES EVERY YEAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
IN HONG KONG THERE WERE 420 DEATHS FROM TUBERCULOSIS AND 6,623 FRESH CASES REPORTED IN 1978.
AT THE MOMENT, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THERE MAY BE SOME 16,000 CASES OF ACTIVE TB IN THE COMMUNITY REQUIRING ATTENTION, AND ALTHOUGH MANY ARE ALREADY UNDER TREATMENT THERE MUST STILL BE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF HIDDEN CASES, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
+WE MUST SOMEHOW FIND ALL SUFFERERS AND PERSUADE THEM TO TAKE REGULAR TREATMENT, AND THIS IS WHAT THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN IS ALL ABOUT, HE POINTED OUT.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT MOST PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM TB DO HAVE SYMPTOMS AND THE CHIEF OF THESE IS A COUGH, LASTING MORE THAN A MONTH, OFTEN WITH SPUTUM AND OCCASIONALLY WITH BLOOD IN THE SPUTUM.
+ONLY TOO OFTEN, PEOPLE PUT THE IR COUGH DOWN TO A SMOKER'S COUGH AND DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, AND WHEN THEY FINALLY DO GET A CHEST X-RAY THE DISEASE IS FOUND TO BE FAR ADVANCED,
HE ADDED.
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