Eliminating an Endemic Disease
There have been no new cases of Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) in Tibet Autonomous Region since 2018 and all 54 risk areas in the region have eliminated the endemic, local health authorities said on May 17.
KBD is an endemic disease of the joints, common among children and adolescents. Its clinical manifestations are painful, thickened and deformed limbs and joints and muscle atrophy.
Based on a survey conducted as part of a two-year KBD treatment campaign launched in 2021, Tibet now has 3,866 KBD patients, all discovered before 2018, 652 of whom
