Tuberculosis in the Modern World

Introduction Tuberculosis is one of the world's major health problems, causing massive death. According to statistics, about one-third of the world's population is infected with bacilli, 8 to 12 million active TB cases occur each year and 3 million people died [1]. Raviglione M. C. 1995]. Tuberculosis is divided into latent tuberculosis and active tuberculosis. Latent tuberculosis is described as a bacterium present in the body but not active. The patient has no symptoms and bacteria are not contagious.

How big is the problem of tuberculosis? In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis as a global emergency situation and taken an unprecedented step by paying much attention to the epidemic of modern tuberculosis. It is estimated that from now it will be infected about 1 billion people, 200 million people will be sick and 70 million people will die of tuberculosis unless the control is strengthened in 2020. People with active disease are untreated and have an average of 10 to 15 infections per year on average. Several people around the world are infected with new tuberculosis per second. Every year, nearly 1% of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis. (Trc-chennai.org/dots.htm)

TB is one of the most deadly diseases in the world and one-third of the world's population is infected (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Tuberculosis is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which normally affects the lung (Australia, 2017). However, tuberculosis can also occur in the kidney, bone, spine, brain (Australia, 2017). Tuberculosis is normally infected by respiratory bacteria after an untreated person coughs or sneezes (Australia, 2017). Overcrowding is a characteristic of areas with a lot of tuberculosis (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Maintaining the prevalence of the population requires continued close contact between active people and susceptible people, but this article will further explain the determinants of health.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by ingestion of bacteria (M. tuberculosis) that affect the lungs. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate, one out of every four people around the world has latent tuberculosis. Active). The figure below shows the mortality rate of tuberculosis. It is expressed as the number of deaths per 100,000 people per year. Please note that these ratios are age-standardized to compensate for differences in the age structure of the population (differences in each country and changes over time). Therefore, in different countries and eras, you can compare the possibilities of people who died of tuberculosis.