Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom

The aim of health promotion is to raise awareness about health problems that may affect the population from a positive or negative perspective. By supporting them with personal and political agenda, we encourage and position higher people to support their health (Ewles & Simnett, 2003). This article will focus on tuberculosis in the UK, especially in the London region. This explains why the incidence of London's tuberculosis is higher than the other major cities in the UK.

In order to understand the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis, it will help you start with the worldwide distribution of disease in 2016. About 2 billion people worldwide are infected with tuberculosis, of which 13 million people are infected in the United States. "Majority" suffers from so-called latent tuberculosis: It means that they are carriers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but they are not infected and can not spread disease. Generally, when infected by a cough or sneezing tuberculosis, tuberculosis spreads through humans and air. But there are two main ways people have drug-resistant tuberculosis. The first way is that people with tuberculosis are unable to consume all antibiotics and bacteria may become resistant to drugs. Otherwise it is excluded. The second way is that people are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains.

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by mycobacteria, a kind of bacteria known to cause many infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy (Kumar). The specific name of tuberculosis is M. tuberculosis. It is unknown how this disease will spread to humans, but some people have evidence of tuberculosis 9000 years ago. The symptoms of tuberculosis are like influenza. These include coughing, sneezing, and fever. Because blood begins to appear in the sputum discharged from the lungs, causing typical symptoms of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can also invade other major organs such as kidney, liver, spine, etc. If it is infected with tuberculosis, there is a risk of death of 50% if you do not receive treatment, but if it exists, the possibility of survival becomes very high and the disease cures.