Tuberculosis becomes the first leading killer in infectious disease

Tuberculosis becomes the first leading killer in infectious disease
The past 20 years has nowadays already become the first leading killer in all infectious diseases by tuberculosis which the mankind ignored. Today, Yin Dakui, Vice Minister of Ministry of Public Health, says to the capital press, there are 8000 people every day in the whole world, 3 million people die of tuberculosis every year. And China though the mortality that tuberculosis causes drops from seventh in 1990 to the 11th of this year, however, in some poverty-stricken areas and ethnic mimority areas, especially 12 provinces in the west, the epidemic situation of tuberculosis is still very serious, the morbidity is up to 197/10 Wan. This conclusion of Yin Dakui's was made by the data investigated according to the fourth tuberculosis epidemiology in the whole country of this year. This investigation reveals: About 1/3 of population in our country has already been infected with the tubercle bacillus, is exceeded 400 million by the number of the infected. According to studying, in the crowd infected by the tuberculosis fungus, 10% of the people will develop into tuberculosis. If we do not take the effective control measure, in the next 10 years, nearly 50 million the infeted tuberculosis happen in our country. Tuberculosis is a kind of old infective disease. Its pathogenic arch-criminal - --Tubercle bacillus to scatter in the air through the intersection of person who sneeze or cough and respiratory tract route, patient of pulmonary tuberculosis. Healthy people breathe with tuberculosis fungus air in triflingly, may be infected with the tuberculosis fungus. Tuberculosis can be sent on each position of the body, such as membrane tuberculosis in brain tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis of intestine, kidney tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, uterus, etc.. Enter the 1990s, biology and sociology factor that increase because of production and social floating population able to bear the bacterial strain of medicine,etc., old tuberculosis is aggravated again prevailingly. This investigation reveals, as the infection source of tuberculosis, our country has infective pulmonary tuberculosis patients 2 million at present, ill rate 157.8/10 Wan. 70% of the tuberculosis patients are in crowd of 14- 50 years old. And being far from enough to propaganda strength that tuberculosis prevent and cure, our country account for the intersection of patient and the intersection of total number and 60% about person accept never hygiene in tuberculosis propagate. In the face of this kind of situation, our government has proposed the following main technical policy: Regard controlling and infecting the source as the groundwork, regard the vast rural area as the focal point prevented and cured, monitor the short distance under to the tuberculosis patient directly and supervise and guide chemotherapy and manage - --Give medicine to be in one's hands watching clothes, getting mouthing, refusing to obey, walking, want, combine together preventing and curing tuberculosis and rural elementary managementing of health care. And will appropriate 40 million yuan from 2001 and used in several comprehensive work of training,etc. that tuberculosis prevents and cures personnel. " China Youth News "

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