HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Respiratory Disease, Night Sweats, Tubercle
16 Jun 2016
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Used to be called consumption, pthisis, tabes, rajayakshma: ancient greeks, ancient roman texts, other words, found in ancient traces! Tubercle bacilli: this bacteria causing tb, replicates really really slowly. Largely unknown in africa until seen in large european colonization. Begins as a latent (hidden phase) infection = asymptomatic. 35% of the world is infected with the bacteria. 5-10% were infected with tb become sick at some point in their life. South east asia had the largest # of new cases of tb in 2013. Africa (sub-saharan) had the highest per capita incidence of tb. 13% with tb also had hiv in 2013. Between 1990-2013, mortality rates have decreased by 45% woot: incidence and prevalence as well is decreasing as a result of effort in resolving the problem. Watch: kill of cure film (available in the library) talk about the challenges with tb. Treatment for tb is difficult bc: the long duration of treatment, experience asymptomatic symptoms early.
