BIOLOGY 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Global Health, World Health Organization
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Tb plaguing humans for thousands of years. Found in the spines of egyptian mummies. Greek physician hippocrates identified a condition that appears to be tb as the most widespread disease of the times. 1906 us; 2 of every 1,000 deaths from tb. Today 1. 5 of every 100,000 deaths. Drops in infection due to tb around the world many public health professionals. Caused by the single-celled bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis. Public health problem because it affects so many people. New infections are estimated to occur at a rate of 1 per second. 90% infections are symptomless; remaining 10% develop active disease; more than half of these people will die without treatment. Symptoms cough that produces blood, fever, fatigue, weaker and thinner within. Explain the name for this disease, consumption, because consumes people from. Arise from the destruction of lung tissue caused by body"s reaction to active. Colonies of the bacteria in the lung are walled off by immune system cells, creating.
