Mayor Boris Johnson urged to ‘fetch a grip’ on fight against TB as rates in parts of city exceed 150 cases per 100000 residentsBoris Johnson is being urged to fetch a grip” on London’s tuberculosis problem after a report revealed that parts of the capital acquire higher rates of the disease than Rwanda,Eritrea and Iraq.[br]There were more than 2500 new cases of TB in London last year – approximately 40% of the UK’s total – according to a report issued by the London assembly and presented to Johnson, the mayor.
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Source: theguardian.com