The production of consumption: addressing the impact of mineral mining on tuberculosis in southern Africa
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Globalization and Health
- Vol. 5 (1) , 11
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-5-11
Abstract
Miners in southern Africa experience incident rates of tuberculosis up to ten times greater than the general population. Migration to and from mines may be amplifying tuberculosis epidemics in the general population.Keywords
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