Each day 1000 people fall sick with tuberculosis in the European Region

An estimated 360 000 Europeans developed tuberculosis (TB) in 2013 – 1000 people on a daily basis.

According to new data published in March 2015 by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the number of TB cases dropped by about 6% compared to 2012, continuing a sustained decline over the last decade across the Region. But rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB remain at very high levels, particularly in the so-called 18 high-priority countries, which see 85% of all new TB cases in the Region. These countries also account for most of the 38 000 TB-related deaths in 2013.