Table 1. Country of origin for 28 foreign-born homeless persons with tuberculosis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998–2007.
Country | No. |
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Burundi | 1 |
Chile | 1 |
China* | 1 |
Costa Rica | 1 |
Ethiopia* | 2 |
Germany | 1 |
Guyana | 2 |
India* | 2 |
Iraq | 1 |
Ireland | 2 |
Nepal | 1 |
Nigeria* | 1 |
Philippines* | 1 |
Poland | 1 |
Somalia | 2 |
Tanzania* | 1 |
Tibet | 1 |
Turkey | 1 |
Uganda* | 2 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Yemen | 1 |
Former Yugoslavia | 1 |
Zimbabwe* | 2 |
*1 of 22 countries that account for 80% of all new of tuberculosis cases annually (high-burden countries).