PETALING JAYA: Foreign workers are among the major causes for the increase in tuberculosis (TB) cases in Malaysia, but they are not the sole cause, according to the Health Ministry.
The rise in non-communicable diseases and the country’s “greying population”, it said, were also contributing factors for the rising trend.
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