WHAT IS TB?
Tuberculosis (TB) …a common contagious lungs disease
characterized by cough, fever, weight loss,
coughing up blood, feeling weak,
tired and chest pain…is caused by the bacterial of TB bacilli and it is spread
through the air, when people who get
infected cough, sneeze, or spit.
But infectious people will not necessarily become sick with the disease
due to the strong immune system is weakened.
Whenever people get sick with TB, if left untreated, more than 50% of
its victims will be killed. The World
Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global health emergency in 1993 and
surveyed that 1.3 million people died from TB in 2008 among which Africa Region
had the highest mortality per capital.
In addition, more people in the developed world are contracting TB
because their immune systems are weakened by immunosuppressive drugs, substance
abuse, or AIDS. With the spread of AIDS,
tuberculosis continues to lay waste to large population. The emergence of drug-resistant organisms
threatens to make this disease once incurable.