{"id":4597,"date":"2010-06-21T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2010-06-23T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:26:40","slug":"tuberculosis-mining-plays-bigger-role-in-tb-in-africa-than-had-been-realized-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/06\/21\/tuberculosis-mining-plays-bigger-role-in-tb-in-africa-than-had-been-realized-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis: Mining Plays Bigger Role in TB in Africa Than Had Been Realized, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/health\/22glob.html?ref=health\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4598\" title=\"100623_mining\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/100623_mining.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Dust-choked mine shafts, crowded working conditions and stifling hostels  where up to 16 miners share a room \u2013 all conspire to make mining a more  important contributor to tuberculosis in Africa than had been realized,  a new study finds. Rates of the illness have doubled in Africa over the past two decades, and have tripled in South Africa, which even in 1996 had the highest TB rates in the world. Until now it has been assumed that the increases were driven by Africa\u2019s high rates of infection with the AIDS virus, which weakens the immune system, helping latent TB become active. But researchers from Brown and Oxford Universities, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of California, San Francisco, compared 44 African countries and found that even some with low rates of H.I.V. infection rates had high TB rates. When a country\u2019s mines shut down, tuberculosis often fell. The study appeared in The American Journal of Public Health. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/health\/22glob.html?ref=health\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote        link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=2\" target=\"_blank\">Basic Resources<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/health\/22glob.html?ref=health\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust-choked mine shafts, crowded working conditions and stifling hostels where up to 16 miners share a room \u2013 all conspire to make mining a more important contributor to tuberculosis in Africa than had been realized, a new study finds. Rates of the illness have doubled in Africa over the past two decades, and have tripled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}