This week several Russian sites – RT, Vesti, Ukraina.ru – published articles claiming that the European Union is seeing renewed outbreaks of tuberculosis because of the visa free regime with Ukraine. Citing Russia’s State Epidemiology Oversight body, they claim the tuberculosis situation in Ukraine has reached catastrophic proportions and is worsening every day.
StopFake: Fake – Ukraine’s tuberculosis epidemic threatens the EU
Ukraine is in fact seeing positive trends in its battle with tuberculosis.
