ArticleSouthern African journal of infectious diseases2025
Coal mining as a risk factor for tuberculosis - Commodity or circumstance?
Article in Southern African journal of infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Improving TB care services among coal mine workers and their associated communities in Pakistan.Public health action · 2025Article
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Abstract
The association of tuberculosis (TB) with the mining industry is well known in South Africa. This may well be true for gold mining and silica exposure. However, a description of the pathophysiological link between coal mining and TB is not clearly detailed in the literature with many articles citing associations rather than direct causality. A focused intervention of active case-finding and treatment in coal mines in South Africa resulted in a dramatic reduction in the incidence of TB of more than 70% compared to historical figures and substantially below the national incidence as well. Contribution: We suggest that the risk of acquiring or reactivating TB is not solely attributable to coal exposure itself. Instead, socioeconomic factors, such as poor working and living conditions around mines and comorbid illnesses, likely play a more significant role, as the principal drivers of the disease and therefore, these factors, alongside active screening for TB should receive more attention.
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