Tuberculosis comeback in the capital - London

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LONDON (Reuters) - After decades of decline, tuberculosis is making a comeback in the capital where nearly half of all new cases of the respiratory disease are reported, according to a new report.

London has the highest incidence of the illness of any region in England and Wales. In some parts of the city the number of new cases has increased fourfold in the last decade.

"While rates of infection have flattened out or dipped across the rest of the country, increasing numbers of Londoners are contracting the disease," Elizabeth Howlett, chair of the London Assembly Health Committee, said in the report.

The illness is putting new pressures on the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) and other agencies and drug resistant strains of the illness are increasing the cost of treating it.

"TB is killing more people worldwide than ever before," Howlett added.

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Isn't America killing more people worldwide than ever before?