World Tuberculosis Day 2018:
World Tuberculosis Day 2018: "Be safe, healthy and aware"
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Tuberculosis is an influential bacterial infection that can affect almost every part of the human body. This bacterial infection develops easily from an infected person to another healthy person by just breathing in the bacteria. The disease spreads easily when the infected person coughs, speaks or opens his mouth.

It is an airborne disease and is highly contagious too.

The theme of World TB Day 2018 - “Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world”- focuses on building commitment to end TB, not only at the political level with Heads of State and Ministers of Health, but at all levels from Mayors, Governors, parliamentarians and community leaders, to people affected with TB, civil society advocates, health workers, doctors or nurses, NGOs and other partners. All can be leaders of efforts to end TB in their own work or terrain.

Recently the government has announced that it is on a mission to abolish tuberculosis from the country by the year 2025.

India reported 4,23,000 TB deaths in 2017 and an average of 211 new infections per 1,00,000 people were diagnosed. Currently, there are over 2.8 million cases in India, making it the TB capital of the world, as per a report by the World Health Organisations.

The Indian government has now asked every clinical establishment to notify the local public health authority and municipal health officer.

More than 95 percent of TB related deaths happen in low- and middle-income nations. Around 1 million children fell ill due to TB and 250,000 children died, in 2016.

The countries are known as the “high burden countries” are those with the highest level of disease. They include India, Indonesia, China, and Nigeria. Many countries are now making greater efforts to combat TB.

A major part of the prevention of TB is to stop the spread of bacteria from one adult to another. This is done by firstly finding the adults who have TB. Then providing them with effective treatment which means that they are no longer infectious, and they will also usually then recover from being sick. There is a vaccine, the BCG vaccine, but it is used for children as it doesn’t seem to prevent the disease in adults.

Make sure if someone is infected with this disease around you then take precautions and get the medical help as soon as possible.

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