It has been shown that 5.3 percent
of the TB patients that live in the area along the border
between Thailand and Myanmar have a drug-resistant
form of TB. Based on medical records from 2007, 72.2
percent of the total number of TB patients treated were
migrant workers (it was expected that this proportion
amounted to 85%); the fatality rate was 6.2 percent while
14.4 percent failed to complete the treatment (Bureau of
Tuberculosis, 2011).