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http://www.lanacion.cl/200-personas...-tuberculosis/noticias/2011-05-04/172623.html
Spanish to English translation
200 people die each year in Chile because of Tuberculosis
Patricia G. Sch?ller
Dr. Victorino Forge, a pioneer in research and combating disease in the country, said that this infection is "far from being a disease defeated." Appear each year in the territory 2 000 new cases, ie, 7 patients a day.
Thursday May 5, 2011 | Country
A chest radiograph is one of the instruments used to detect the disease.
The mention of the word tuberculosis brings to mind images of dying patients and hospitals hiding in the mountains. But this contagious bacterial infection that affects mainly the lungs, and that in the nineteenth century was called the White Plague, is not a bad memory from the past but still a reality that must be fought.
So says the doctor Victorino Forge (pictured below) , a pioneer in research and combating disease in Chile. The evil is not eradicated and "far from defeated illness" in the country and the world, highlights the academic who, in the Academy of Medicine, delivered a lecture entitled "New Challenges in tuberculosis."
The annual incidence of tuberculosis in the country is about 13 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, well below the world average of over ten times that amount.
Every year, displayed in Chile says 2,000 new cases of tuberculosis, ie, 7 patients die daily and more than 200 of them. This means that 5 people a week die from tuberculosis in the country, stresses Forge.
He adds: "Imagine what would happen if one person dies every week from hantavirus. Therefore, this disease must continue to attack with all possible forces. "
In any case, Chile along with Costa Rica, Uruguay and Cuba are the countries that have fewer cases of evil in America. This is a result of current control programs have been developed. And it highlights in particular the program impulsadi or the Ministry of Health.
The reality of the disease in the world realizes that it remains in force: more than 10 million TB, each year there are over 9 million new cases and between 1 to 2 million of them die. Which the disease has not yet been eradicated, says the doctor, is due mainly to poverty, migration and AIDS pandemic.
Spanish to English translation
200 people die each year in Chile because of Tuberculosis
Patricia G. Sch?ller
Dr. Victorino Forge, a pioneer in research and combating disease in the country, said that this infection is "far from being a disease defeated." Appear each year in the territory 2 000 new cases, ie, 7 patients a day.
Thursday May 5, 2011 | Country
A chest radiograph is one of the instruments used to detect the disease.
The mention of the word tuberculosis brings to mind images of dying patients and hospitals hiding in the mountains. But this contagious bacterial infection that affects mainly the lungs, and that in the nineteenth century was called the White Plague, is not a bad memory from the past but still a reality that must be fought.
So says the doctor Victorino Forge (pictured below) , a pioneer in research and combating disease in Chile. The evil is not eradicated and "far from defeated illness" in the country and the world, highlights the academic who, in the Academy of Medicine, delivered a lecture entitled "New Challenges in tuberculosis."
The annual incidence of tuberculosis in the country is about 13 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, well below the world average of over ten times that amount.
Every year, displayed in Chile says 2,000 new cases of tuberculosis, ie, 7 patients die daily and more than 200 of them. This means that 5 people a week die from tuberculosis in the country, stresses Forge.
He adds: "Imagine what would happen if one person dies every week from hantavirus. Therefore, this disease must continue to attack with all possible forces. "
In any case, Chile along with Costa Rica, Uruguay and Cuba are the countries that have fewer cases of evil in America. This is a result of current control programs have been developed. And it highlights in particular the program impulsadi or the Ministry of Health.
The reality of the disease in the world realizes that it remains in force: more than 10 million TB, each year there are over 9 million new cases and between 1 to 2 million of them die. Which the disease has not yet been eradicated, says the doctor, is due mainly to poverty, migration and AIDS pandemic.