Tuberculosis : Common Health Problem

Tuberculosis is a disease of an infectious nature caused by a bacterium known as mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease spreads through the air. People with the disease can spread it to susceptible people through coughing, sneezing, talking or spitting. It mainly affects the lungs and other parts such as the lymph nodes and kidneys can also be affected. The symptoms for TB are fatigue, coughing, night sweats, weight loss and fever. One third of the population of the world is affected with mycobacterium tuberculosis. The rate of infection is estimated to be one person per second. About 14 million people in the world are infected with active tuberculosis. Drug resistant TB has been recorded to be a serious public health hazard in many countries. Resistant strains have developed making it difficult to treat the disease. TB has caused millions of death mainly in people living with HIV/AIDS ADDIN EN.CITE Ginsberg19981447(Ginsberg, 1998)1447144717Ginsberg, Ann M.The Tuberculosis Epidemic: Scientific Challenges and OpportunitiesPublic Health Reports (1974-)Public Health Reports (1974-)128-13611321998Association of Schools of Public Health00333549http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598234( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_3" o "Ginsberg, 1998 #1447" Ginsberg, 1998). The World Health Organization came up with the DOTS (Directly Observed, Therapy, Short course) strategy. The approach involves diagnosing cases and treating patients with drugs for about 6-8

Tuberculosis (TB), which is brought on by contamination with an individual from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is a noteworthy reason for incapacity and passing in numerous parts of the world. The frequency (recently reported cases) of tuberculosis in Louisiana is near the normal occurrence in the United States. . In 2013, Louisiana: Ranked eleventh among the 50 states in TB rates (3 for each 100,000 people) and 22.3% of TB cases were foreign-born people (CDC, 2015). As in the U.S., frequency has diminished

According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis (TB) is the number two killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent (WHO, 2017). In 2015, 10.4 million new cases have been identified and 1.8 million people have died from this disease (WHO, 2017). TB is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium TB, and the majority of TB deaths occur in low and middle-income countries. This disease is curable and preventable, but the lack of access to proper healthcare and medication administration makes it a concern for the most of the world’s population. TB is an airborne disease that can transmit when an infected person coughs, sneezes, spits, laughs, or talks. The majority of TB cases can be cured when the right medications are available and

Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), also known as TB, is a disease spread by respiratory inhalation of droplets that contain the bacteria. Tuberculosis is an ancient disease that has been traced back at least 9000 years. In 1882, Dr. Robert Koch was the first physician to describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the germ responsible for tuberculosis. However, treatment that was evidenced based was not put into practice until the 20th century. It is estimated that 2 billion people around the world are infected with the TB bacteria. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of these infected people will actual develop active TB and experience the life-threatening symptoms of the disease. Tuberculosis

Communicable Disease Paper Tuberculosis  Communicable diseases rely on fluid exchange, contaminated substance, or close contact to travel from an infected carrier to a healthy individual. Many people have never heard of a disease called tuberculosis (TB) or not fully aware how serious this disease really is. I will briefly summarize the research that was conducted on tuberculosis by describing the disease in details and discussing efforts to control it, indentify environmental factors related to tuberculosis, and explain the influence of lifestyles, socioeconomic status, as well as disease management. I will also briefly describe what public health departments are doing to reduce the threat, and include data, evidence, and plan to

Tuberculosis is a disease cause by a bacterium that spreads when a person infected with the virus, sneezes, coughs, or even talks and the germs make it into the air for another person to breathe. This bacterium primarily affects the lungs and prevents the proper functioning of the respiratory system. Tuberculosis continues to be a problem in the United States and the problem is even bigger in developing countries such as India where they have seen the growth of MDR-TB cases. The following annotated bibliographies include a variety of peer review journals, a CDC website and the RX for survival video, which addresses the burden of tuberculosis in different parts of the world. The bibliographies also look at the risk factors, prevalence, mortality,

Controlling the spread of TB is globally important because transmission to others can cause devastating consequences of transference to anyone the infected one is around including healthcare workers. Treatment of TB can be lengthy and require supervision of compliance. Some TB strains are drug resistant and very expensive to treat. Exposure can occur in clinics where the sick are waiting for healthcare.

TB is transmitted through droplets released from the lungs when a person infected with active pulmonary TB coughs, sneezes, or speaks for long periods of time. These droplets can linger in the air for several hours and can be potentially inhaled by another individual. The people who are most at risk for being infected with the M. Tuberculosis bacteria are babies, children, and the elderly. People who live or work in nursing homes, prisons, homeless shelters, or travel or have lived in high TB-infected areas or countries such as India, Africa, or China are also at higher risk. Other risk factors include poor nutrition, limited access to healthcare, immunodeficiency conditions, or use of drugs that suppress immune functions (Kelly, Wilker, & Ambrose, 2011). Extrapulmonary TB, on the other hand, is generally not transmitted unless it becomes active in the

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial infection that affects millions of people globally. It is a contagious disease that is spread through the air, and it usually affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person through droplets from the respiratory tract of those who are already infected with the disease. Some who are infected with the bacteria that causes TB often exhibit no symptoms, because their immune systems stop the bacteria from growing and multiplying. Those with compromised immune systems are more susceptible to developing the full blown disease which can cause symptoms that include coughing, spitting blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, and fever. Tuberculosis can be treated with a six to nine month course of a combination of antibiotics. If left untreated, TB will spread and can be fatal.

Tuberculosis is highly contagious and can spread from infected person to a healthy person through the air by inhaling airborne droplets called nuclei from an infected person. These airborne particles come from the infected person by sneezing, coughing or laughing and other forced respiratory. Which is why someone close to an infected person on a daily basis will be at high risk of getting infected especially for example if they share the same room. If the droplets containing tuberculosis bacilli are large they become embedded in the proximal airways. Which should not cause an infection. The infection happens when the particles are small, enough to cross the upper respiratory defence and reach the lungs. In 1950 several antibiotic were developed

The host factors for tuberculosis includes poor nutrition, coexisting diseases, poor immunity. Compremised population are at high risk for communicable diseases. Infants, children who are longer time in schools, older adults are prone to get infected with communcable diseases like TB. According to WHO, vaccination for TB, in countries where the disease is common, is recommended. Bacille Calmette – Guerin (BCG) is effective in protecting small children from TB. BCG is not in use in The United States (NIH). Health care workers, police

Tuberculosis is a mycobacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Transmission usually occurs through exposure to the tubercle bacilli in airborne droplets from persons with pulmonary tuberculosis who talk, cough, or sneeze but not everyone infected with TB becomes sick with it. TB remains latent in the bodies. People with latent TB do not spread TB to others. The nature of latent TB is extremely important, especially in an age of HIV, because latent TB can become active in people with weak immune systems. This could occur because of HIV. Thus, the large amount of people in the world with latent TB infection have a very significant risk of developing active infection if they are infected with HIV. The TB-HIV interface is

TB is a disease that infect mostly human’s lung. It can spread through air way. This can be done through coughing or sneezing from TB patients. The bacteria travel in the air and infect healthy people. This disease is commonly occurring in low income countries, deprived areas and big cities in a developed country. There are some factors that contribute to TB which are immigration, social inequalities, HIV infection and misuse of drugs or alcohol (Millet et al., 2012). The TB incidence is increasing when the HIV infection among the population is increasing. In Western Europe, the TB cases occur because of immigration. So, there are different epidemiological pattern in different countries due to different factors that contribute to it (Glaziou et al., 2013).

Tuberculosis is a disease that has been familiar to mankind since the ancient times. According to Dr Ananya Manda, Strains of the Myobacterium tuberculosis have been found in relics from ancient Egypt, India, and China. During the 18th century, tuberculosis reached its peak in Western Europe with the disease causing 900 deaths per 100,000 people due to poor ventilation, overcrowded housing, primitive sanitation, and malnutrition during that time (Mandal, 2014). Today, a third of the world’s population has been exposed to and infected with tuberculosis, the statistic rising to 90% in developing countries (Mandal, 2014).

Tuberculosis is among the fatal diseases that are spread through the air. It’s contagious, meaning that it spreads from one infected individual to another, and at times it spreads very fast. In addition to being contagious, the disease is an opportunist infection as it takes advantage of those with weak defense mechanism, and especially the ones with terminal diseases like HIV and AIDS. Tuberculosis is therefore among the major concerns for the World Health Organization due to its contagious nature (World Health Organization 1).