Tuberculosis — Worldwide/Unknown
The epidemiology of communicable diseases can be affected by migration; between 2007 and 2011, around 40 per cent of HIV cases in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) were reported among migrants [1-3]. Migration from high-incidence countries (defined as incidence as 20 or more tuberculosis (TB) cases/100 000 inhabitants/year) is known to contribute notably to TB burden in low-incidence countries (under 20 TB cases/100 000 inhabitants/year) using the thresholds previously
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