We need to know more about the nature of tuberculosis. We need to know all aspects of tuberculosis to know how it is produced, how it is transmitted, and how it is prevented. Let's follow the small compilation of the four seas network to have a look.
Saturday, March 24, 2018 is World Tuberculosis Day. The epidemic has almost disappeared in the rich countries, but the situation is still severe in the poor countries. And in recent years, tuberculosis has become the infectious disease with the most deaths in the world. According to statistics, since 2016, there have been tens of millions of tuberculosis cases in the world, including 1.7 million deaths.
Tuberculosis causes a large number of deaths because it is difficult to treat if infected. In this regard, representatives of MSF non-governmental organizations pointed out in an interview that it is disturbing that new cases of MDR-TB are increasing, and nearly 500000 new cases were found in 2016.
According to the World Health Organization, the theme of the World TB Day 2018 is' to play leadership and end TB '. Under this theme, the United Nations General Assembly high level meeting on tuberculosis, with the participation of heads of state, is planned to be held in New York in 2018
Tuberculosis is one of the diseases with the highest morbidity and mortality in history, which brings great harm to individuals, families and society. For individuals: TB patients will gradually lose their ability to work, which will affect their study, life and even future work. They will have great psychological pressure and increase their economic losses. If we can't insist on early, regular and reasonable treatment, the treatment may fail, resulting in drug resistance and difficult to cure, even death. For families: increase the economic burden, life burden and great opportunities for infection. To the society: the understanding of disease makes people panic, increases the burden of the country and affects its sustainable development. Tuberculosis is the most infectious and common form of tuberculosis, so everyone should know how to effectively prevent tuberculosis.
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1. To understand tuberculosis, we first need to understand what is tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the invasion of tuberculosis into the human body, which may occur in any part of the human body, such as: lung, lymph, bone, kidney, intestine, urinary tract, etc. Tuberculosis is the most common.
2. Secondly, we need to know what symptoms tuberculosis will have: early or mild tuberculosis, no symptoms or slight symptoms can be ignored, if the disease is in the stage of activity progress, there can be: systemic symptoms, fever is low fever in the afternoon, most of the temperature rises at 4-8 p.m., generally between 37-38 ℃, often accompanied by general weakness, emaciation, anorexia, night Night sweats, women can lead to irregular menstruation or menopause; respiratory symptoms can include: cough, expectoration, hemoptysis and chest pain, dyspnea, etc.
3. We also need to know clearly how tuberculosis spreads among people: tuberculosis mainly spreads through the respiratory tract, which means that tuberculosis patients with positive sputum bacteria will spray out droplets containing tuberculosis bacteria when coughing, expectorating, sneezing or talking loudly, which may cause infection after being inhaled by healthy people. It can also be infected by contaminated food or utensils. According to statistics, a TB patient can infect 10-15 people in each place.
4. What's more, we need to know what kind of people are more likely to be infected with tuberculosis. The following two kinds of people are more likely to be infected with tuberculosis: