GOV. GIBBONS PROCLAIMS MARCH 24 AS WORLD TB DAY IN NEVADA
March 28, 2008
March 28, 2008
CARSON CITY, Nev., March 28 -- Gov. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., has issued the following proclamation:
WHEREAS, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) causes disease in over one hundred residents of Nevada annually and an estimated eight hundred more are infected with the bacterium that cause tuberculosis, placing Nevada as twentieth in the nation for TB cases per population; and
WHEREAS, Nevada is one of the nine U.S. states to have verified cases of extensively drug resistant f . . .
WHEREAS, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) causes disease in over one hundred residents of Nevada annually and an estimated eight hundred more are infected with the bacterium that cause tuberculosis, placing Nevada as twentieth in the nation for TB cases per population; and
WHEREAS, Nevada is one of the nine U.S. states to have verified cases of extensively drug resistant f . . .