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http://www.rpp.com.pe/2012-03-23-si...-es-peor-que-hace-30-anos-noticia_464327.html
Spanish-English translation
Tuberculosis situation in the world 'is worse than 30 years'
Friday, March 23, 2012 | 10:10 a.m.
Although the number of cases has declined overall since 2006, the number of children who have lost their parents because of TB reaches 10 million.
Criminal inmates with TB are seen by the MoH | RPP
The current situation of tuberculosis in the world is " much worse "than when it was discovered its cause in the eighties and is predicted to be eradicated in 2000, warned a Spanish physician expert in this disease .
In the commemoration of World TB Day , Dr Joan Pere Cardona, director of the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit of Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona, in the Catalonia region, cited three risk factors.
This is AIDS, which increases the population likely to develop the disease, multidrug-resistant strains and the accumulation of the world population in the cities, which favors the transmission.
"Unfortunately, the therapeutic and prophylactic arsenal is almost the same as in the eighties," said Cardona, one of the discoverers of the first vaccine against latent tuberculosis infection.
Although the number of cases has declined overall since 2006, the number of children who have lost their parents because of TB reaches 10 million.
It is also important to note that 13% of cases of these deaths occur in people who are also infected the HIV virus, which at times difficult to treat, he said.
Countries like India and China are ahead in terms of the number of reported cases, with 40%, followed by Africa, which accounts for 24%.
These figures are "particularly alarming" if you consider that between them more and more multiresistant strains, which are adapted to survive the drugs and move easily between people.
Detected in 2010 were 9.5 million new TB cases and caused 1.7 million deaths worldwide .
Spanish-English translation
Tuberculosis situation in the world 'is worse than 30 years'
Friday, March 23, 2012 | 10:10 a.m.
Although the number of cases has declined overall since 2006, the number of children who have lost their parents because of TB reaches 10 million.
Criminal inmates with TB are seen by the MoH | RPP
The current situation of tuberculosis in the world is " much worse "than when it was discovered its cause in the eighties and is predicted to be eradicated in 2000, warned a Spanish physician expert in this disease .
In the commemoration of World TB Day , Dr Joan Pere Cardona, director of the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit of Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona, in the Catalonia region, cited three risk factors.
This is AIDS, which increases the population likely to develop the disease, multidrug-resistant strains and the accumulation of the world population in the cities, which favors the transmission.
"Unfortunately, the therapeutic and prophylactic arsenal is almost the same as in the eighties," said Cardona, one of the discoverers of the first vaccine against latent tuberculosis infection.
Although the number of cases has declined overall since 2006, the number of children who have lost their parents because of TB reaches 10 million.
It is also important to note that 13% of cases of these deaths occur in people who are also infected the HIV virus, which at times difficult to treat, he said.
Countries like India and China are ahead in terms of the number of reported cases, with 40%, followed by Africa, which accounts for 24%.
These figures are "particularly alarming" if you consider that between them more and more multiresistant strains, which are adapted to survive the drugs and move easily between people.
Detected in 2010 were 9.5 million new TB cases and caused 1.7 million deaths worldwide .