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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of the respiratory tract caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Bacteria often damage the lungs. However TB bacteria can damage any part of the body including the kidneys spine and brain. If left untreated TB can be fatal. However it is a curable disease when the treatment is completed according to the doctors instructions.Our country is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of TB and more than 3000 new cases of TB are diagnosed each year. 12 percent of them are children. The high incidence of TB among children and young people indicates that TB infection is active in society.More than 60 percent of all TB cases registered in Mongolia every year are registered in Ulaanbaatar and about 70 percent of the cases are among adolescents aged 15-44 and working age.
