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Bhutan

May 1, 2008

9 college students return with TB

“Our youth's lifestyle of late night parties, smoking, drinking, poor diet and even drugs and unsafe sex (HIV) make their immune system weak and thus vulnerable to TB.”

In the past three months nine Bhutanese college students in Bangkok and India have been diagnosed with tuberculosis after they checked themselves at the national referral hospital in Thimphu. via Kuensel

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