TB is a Worldwide Pandemic

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Topic: TB is a Worldwide Pandemic
Posted: September 08 2006 at 11:36pm

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Posted: September 08 2006 at 11:37pm

Posted: Today at 10:25pm

http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2001/en/note2001-06.html

As the global TB pandemic continues to be a major public health burden to the world, a new problem is threatening TB control efforts. The epidemic of MDR-TB, defined as TB resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin (the two most powerful anti-TB drugs), has reached extraordinarily high levels in some areas and standard drug regimens may be insufficient to contain it.

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An estimated one third of humanity (approximately two billion people) is infected with tuberculosis (TB). Amongst those carrying the pathogen, around 8 million persons come down with clinical disease every year; and out of these, about 1.6 million die, not counting tuberculosis-related deaths in TB-HIV co-infected individuals. Over 1.5 million new TB cases per year occur in sub-Saharan Africa, nearly three million in South-East Asia and over a quarter of a million in Eastern Europe. In 1993, WHO declared tuberculosis a global emergency, reflecting the magnitude of the concern about the TB epidemic. It is estimated that between 2000 and 2020, nearly one billion people will be newly infected, 200 million will get sick, and 35 million will die from TB � if control measures are not significantly improved.

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Posted: September 08 2006 at 11:54pm

Anharra this just came in re TB

TB needs response similar to that of Sars: WHO

The strain recently claimed the lives of 52 people in KwaZulu-Natal

September 09, 2006, 07:15

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says a response similar to recent global efforts to control Sars and bird flu is needed to curb a new highly-resistant strain of tuberculosis, prevalent in parts of South Africa.

The strain recently claimed the lives of 52 people in KwaZulu-Natal. It is said to pose a grave risk to HIV-positive people as it thrives in weakened immune systems.

Detection is difficult as its symptoms are the same as normal tuberculosis, but it takes four weeks to identify.

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 6:59pm

I have read several comments lately referring to the fact that the upcoming pandemic may not be H5N1, but another virus. Several are being watched, it is said. I wonder if one of these could be MDR-TB? Or, heaven forbid, two at once, or several, or a combination of two viruses!

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 7:58pm

It appears you are not alone with that thought. Apparently Albert shares your concern since he has had the foresight to change the name of the forum to Pandemic Flu!

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 9:04pm

This virus has been around for more than ten years. I remember my husband talking about it before our son was born. I remember it started in Russia and there wasnt much news about it. Just that it was not responding to medications.

MY mother had a friend who had reguilar tb and it took a year for it to clear up.even with medication and there were side effects and it took a toil on her health . She came from a wealthy family not exactly living a high risk lifestyle.

The regular tb is harder to catch and spreads in workplaces where

people work long hours with little sleep

We need to keep imformed about this virus as nobody else is going out of their way to educate us on this virus

Its like there has been a news blackout til now. This virus has been active and spread from Russia.

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 9:20pm

good point Linda-Ann, it has been here a while...and they say -

"It is estimated that between (yrs) 2000 and 2020, nearly one billion people will be newly infected, 200 million will get sick, and 35 million will die from TB � if control measures are not significantly improved."

I agree that Who has not really got the word out to the average American on this... TB PANDEMIC...

I hope our members are checking this out.... I used the word Pandemic,

as they do...it's here.

Projections of the future toll of the global TB pandemic are even more frightening. Currently,
it is estimated that less than half of all TB cases worldwide are diagnosed, and fewer than 60
percent of diagnosed cases are cured. Without unprecedented efforts to improve TB control
in regions hardest hit by the disease, incidence is expected to climb steadily. Tuberculosis
will remain one of the world�s top ten causes of adult mortality in the year 2020;

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 9:25pm

I hope this thread stays front and center as it is serious threat and yes it might be more dangerous than bf. I researched the topic drug resistant tb and there were several articles on the topic , starting in 1996 .

The drug resistand tb is already in New York 2000. it not new just not talked about much.

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Posted: September 09 2006 at 9:57pm

not new just not talked about much. from Linda Ann

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We need to give it more thought ...please see

EBOLA with Wings....

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Posted: September 10 2006 at 1:49pm

With the avaian flu it is expected to hit or not ,it may even disappear like sars but this is a train coming at us from our blind side. There are no weapons against it . I am surprised the

WHO haSNT imformed the public about the risk more in depth lang ago.

This should of been front page news more often.

What has happened in Russia with this virus . I was able to find some old articles then blank. , we are so in the dark about Russia , with its poverty asnd lack of medical treament and facilities. I have a friend who came fromPoland and she tried to explain that third world poverty is not just Africa. We have no real understanding of how things really are, well most of us. We live our sheltered lives.

This reminds me , Ten years ago some friends were sitting around and discussing the world events and we all felt that the world was improving polictally maturing even, Now with political unrest , terrorist, desease, poverty . we are facing a uncertain future.

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Posted: September 12 2006 at 6:36pm

TB Video from

Stop TB Partnership

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Kill or Cure
A documentary film that resulted from a collaborative effort between four organizations: BBC World TV, Rockhopper TV, Stop TB Partnership, and WHO Stop TB Department. mpeg format - Play
(This film is quite long and may take a long time to load.)

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Posted: September 13 2006 at 4:31am

It is said to pose a grave risk to HIV-positive people as it thrives in weakened immune systems.

Not to sound like a bad person, but if this thing preys on those that have already weakened immune systems and kills off most of the people with HIV/AIDS it theoretically could prevent AF. Since the people with the weakened systems would be the easiest carriers and spreaders of the disease, their deaths might help the rest of us.

ATM I'm particularly unhappy with people that are carrying the various plagues. I had a dirtbag spit blood in my face who was Hepatitis C positive. When I went to the hospital to see his records, the hospital staff wouldn't give me his information because of a federal law. This law goes so far that it even prevents rape victims from finding out if their attacker is carrying diseases.

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Posted: September 13 2006 at 12:50pm

not a helpful law...

All....be very careful who you are near these days.

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Posted: September 13 2006 at 3:54pm

Hello everyone. Please check out the RSOE HAVARIA emergency map and click on Epidemic hazard in Transvaal,Africa. I wish I knew how to transfer it. Thanks.There is a woman thought to have the resistant strain of TB who just walked out of the hospital.Jeez!

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Posted: September 13 2006 at 8:35pm

Does anyone have a breakdown of the locations of this virus and death count . Like we have for Avain Flu. I know it been in New York for awhile.

I feel for the emergency workers who have to deal with these patients the offenders spite when they get mad

We need to keep a close eye on this as it closer and moredangerous at least for now.

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Posted: September 13 2006 at 10:40pm

Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis. MDRTB was first reported in New York City and Florida. Greater than 90 percent of MDRTB occurs in HIV-positive people, and mortality from MDRTB is greater than 80 percent. In 1991, 20 percent of all TB cases reported to the New York City Health Department were MDRTB (Chaisson, USA, Session 136).

Study of the problem at the University of Miami showed that infection with MDRTB in HIV-positive people was 11 times more likely in those with AIDS than in those with asymptomatic HIV infection. Clinically, it is much more aggressive and involves both the lung and sites outside the lung in a single individual (pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB). The 50 percent morSeventy-five percent of people with MDRTB do not clear their infection despite therapy tality ratio from MDRTB in HIV-positive people is two to three months. (Fischl, USA, TuB0534).

The problem of MDRTB has raised important questions regarding treatment for this disease. Unfortunately, there is no immediate method to distinguish drug-sensitive TB from MDRTB. Sometimes several weeks are needed to generate drug sensitivity data. Currently, the standard of care is to begin treating the individual with the common drugs used for treatment of sensitive TB. If the individual does not clinically respond after five days of therapy, serious consideration should be given to switching to a treatment regimen which would be more effective for MDRTB (Mullen, USA, TuB0535).

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About 2 - 3 million people die from TB every year.

More than 8 million develop active TB disease each year.

One-third of the world's population is currently infected with TB bacillus.

Someone gets sick from TB every 4 seconds.

Someone dies of TB every 10 seconds.

Left untreated, a person with active TB disease can infect 10 to 15 people every year.

In USA, about 50% of TB cases are among the foreign-born.

TB and HIV are increasing together - HIV activates TB infection.

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