Mines in Tanzania have been named as the major breeding sites for tuberculosis infection, public health experts warned...It is estimated that Tanzania handles 63,000 medical cases of tuberculosis every year but the figure apparently accounts for just 50 percent of the total reach-out number which the country is supposed to address per annum, with mining quarries remaining to be unreached areas despite producing victims of the disease at alarming rate. Ramadhan Msimbira, the Northern Zone Manager for the Occupational Safety and Health Authority (OSHA), said his office has been conducting inspections as well as medical examinations to officially registered mines in effort to combat TB and other airborne diseases..."Poorly ventilated pits, mostly filled with carbon air also make mining areas to be TB factories," health expert Dr. Sode Matiku said.