Tuberculosis Cases on New Low After Two Decades
by Gina Kolite in Diseases on Oct 31, 2011
Tuberculosis is recognized as the second largest infectious killer in the history of the world.
But today, the figures present that new cases of the disease is now dropping annually for the very first time within a timeframe of twenty years or two decades. This is a long-sought turning point for the disease.
Tuberculosis is characterized as an infection in the lungs that can multiply to any other organ virtually. The disease has already affected a lot of individuals for more than 15,000 years. In the past year, TB has killed about 1.4 million individuals globally.
The disease has been long associated with poverty. However, the spread of the disease seem to have the unanticipated development in the past 25 years with the existence of AIDS. Among all the infectious disease, AIDS took on the larger charge.
Individuals who are infected with HIV are said to probably develop tuberculosis thirty times compared to those individuals who do not have AIDS. The records tell that a quarter of the people who died from TB in the past year also had with them the virus causing AIDS.
The epidemiologists from World Health Organization had announced in Tuesday that the fall down of new cases of TB had started late in 2006, however, it was only known until this year, when the updated data from India, China and some other seventeen African countries became available. With that, they had revised the estimations of global cases of TB and entirely the overall trend of the disease.
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