Experts warn of the risk of TB is curable

Paris: experts called diseases Sunday resolute leadership and more research funding to ward off "very real" risk of strain untreatable tuberculosis (TB) emerging because people are more and more resistant to drugs.In list a series of papers in the Lancet medical journal on the occasion of World TB Day on Sunday , it warned that the health systems risked increasing numbers of tyranny patients.Already drug-resistant TB, more than 30 percent of newly diagnosed patients in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia and multiple believe isoniazid and rifampin.There be cases MDR 630,000 of TB cases about 12 million people in the drug 2011.Extensively - drug-resistant (MDR) TB, a form of the disease that does not respond to drugs are more powerful resistance (XDR) TB, so far reported in 84 countries, does not respond to a greater number of drugs. "The emergence of XDR-TB widely could lead to tuberculosis is curable almost," wrote the authors of one study, led by Zumla Alimuddin Director Center for Infectious Diseases and International Health at University College London Medical School. "With ease of international travel and increasing rates of tuberculosis MDR ... threats and the spread of TB is curable is very real, "said she declared. TB global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) 20 years ago, but still the main cause of death before disease.On infectious its website, the United Nations agency says at least $ 1.6 billion (1.2 billion euros) is The study's authors urged required annually to prevent the spread their own disease.For, "a radical change in the political and scientific thought." "The global economic crisis and low investment in health services threaten national tuberculosis programs and the gains made in the world fight against tuberculosis," the researchers wrote, "The world needs to recognize the serious threat of drug-resistant TB before overwhelms health systems." In dire need are drugs New diagnostic and better tools.In and faster 2011, 8.7 million people infected with tuberculosis, said the World Health Organization and 1.4 million died.More than 95 percent of TB deaths occur in low and middle-income countries, and it is among the first three causes of death for women aged 15 to 44.In 2010, there were about 10 million orphans who lost their parents for TB. It is also a cause of death of people with mortality HIV.The not decline by 41 percent between 1990 and 2011, according to the World Health Organization, which says that the world is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halting the spread of tuberculosis by 2015 "has gained a lot of ground in TB, but can easily be lost if we do not act now, "the World Health Organization Margaret Chan Director-General said in disease Airborne statement.An in the lungs, tuberculosis and treatment usually with six and spread months during antibiotics.It from person to person through the air and usually affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body such as the brain and kidneys.Resistance TB Drug develops when fail treatment to kill the bacteria that causes it - either because of the failure of the patient to follow dosage prescribed by law or not medication work.It can also be contracted through rare forms of the disease which is transmitted directly from person to TB person.MDR in the United States could cost up to $ 250,000 (200,000 euros) for each TB patient for treat.XDR requires about two years of treatment with drugs even more expensive, which often cause side effects and provide no guarantee of treatment.