Tuberculosis Just Will Not Leave Us

My grandmother died of complications of TB and my mother had to be annually checked with x-rays all her life since she was just 4 when her mother had died and had been exposed and always tested positive.



TB may well have been the real source of the first beatitude of Jesus': Blessed are the Poor in Spirit could be read blessed are those poor in breath (spirit). Crowded and unsanitary living conditions have and still are associated with the spread of TB. As long as TB is thought to be a disease of the past or a disease of poor countries, we risk ignoring it and facilitating its becoming an even bigger problem than it already is. The real problem is that drug-resistant TB variants continue to grow and in this air age TB easily passed on - as it has been - to people who would never think they had been exposed by a student, or health worker just returning from a vacation overseas.

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Tuberculosis: Forgotten but not gone

It’s World TB Day

tuberculosis is stubbornly persisting, and the twin problems of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug resistant TB — MDR and XDR — are growing worse.

TB epidemic: 9.4 million just in 2009 and  1.7 million deaths.

It’s hard to know what to say in the face of an epidemic so huge, old and stubborn. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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