‘Food insecurity to add to TB crisis’

File picture: Ahmad Masood

File picture: Ahmad Masood

Published Nov 30, 2015

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Johannesburg - The DA has warned that the current drought has the potential to compound a tuberculosis (TB) crisis by driving crop failure.

The DA said this could result in malnutrition due to food insecurity.

DA spokesman Heinrich Volmink said the drought would result in a scarcity of resources in rural and remote areas, which would force people to migrate to the cities.

He said the migration would result in an increase in population density and because overcrowding was one of the main risk factors of TB, the outcome would be a rapid spread of the disease.

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