08 OCT

Inuit, Ottawa launch task force to fight tuberculosis in the North

The federal government and Inuit have launched a task force to examine the tuberculosis crisis across Inuit Nunangat. Among Inuit, the rate of the lung disease in 2015 was more than 270 times higher than the rate among Canadian-born non-Indigenous people.

CBC | Health News

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