TB Kills 150,000 people Globally
March 20, 2010
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that Tuberculosis has killed and infected thousands in countries globally, The countries Russia and Tajikistan are among the hardest hit. The Tuberculosis has been drug resistant which caused the death of 150,000 in 2008. Today, it continues to infect an estimated 140,000 to 150,000 people globally. According to the WHO, ” the numbers suggest the hard-to-treat infection (Also called MD-R TB) is spreading and said there is an urgent need for countries to set up labs to fight it.” This form of TB is especially hard to treat and is most common in Russia, Tajikistan, China and India. The basic batch of anitbiotics does not work against MDR-TB, So an even stronger doseage of antibiotics must be used. In some serious cases, surgery is performed to remove large pockets of infectious areas. Treatment of the MD-R TB is extremely expensive and but is worth the cost. The “treatment has cured 36 million TB patients over the past 15 years” says, the WHO.
