Resistant
Tuberculosis had been once declared extinguished in Japan but it has been heard sporadically recently.
But in Haiti, the country affected by the earthquake on January 12th, it has been a dominant disease. It occupies the second place of their death rate for infections after AIDS. At the only sanatorium for this disease in the country has now got only one personnel to care fighting with deficiency of tools and medicine.
His struggling is awesome. No one may condemn him to be with his family ousted from their damaged home but he keeps on working at the sanatorium to care the patients. He alerts that there's a great risk of the outbreak with the resistant type of tuberculosis since many patients have fled the sanatorium without medicine they need to intake constantly and they are now among the others seeking for asylum. According to the staff of this article, discerning the infected to provide them the medicine in such hot climate and under dusty circumstances may be difficult.
I really can't stop but feel pity for such these ordeals; losing home, losing food & water and risking their health or even their lives... I hope the support that the many countries providing will prevent the worst consequence and do well with rebuilding the country...
At the same time, as we hear severe natural disasters more often than before, I worry how long the world can afford to support all of them effectively...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/world/americas/06tuberculosis.html?th&emc=th
But in Haiti, the country affected by the earthquake on January 12th, it has been a dominant disease. It occupies the second place of their death rate for infections after AIDS. At the only sanatorium for this disease in the country has now got only one personnel to care fighting with deficiency of tools and medicine.
His struggling is awesome. No one may condemn him to be with his family ousted from their damaged home but he keeps on working at the sanatorium to care the patients. He alerts that there's a great risk of the outbreak with the resistant type of tuberculosis since many patients have fled the sanatorium without medicine they need to intake constantly and they are now among the others seeking for asylum. According to the staff of this article, discerning the infected to provide them the medicine in such hot climate and under dusty circumstances may be difficult.
I really can't stop but feel pity for such these ordeals; losing home, losing food & water and risking their health or even their lives... I hope the support that the many countries providing will prevent the worst consequence and do well with rebuilding the country...
At the same time, as we hear severe natural disasters more often than before, I worry how long the world can afford to support all of them effectively...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/world/americas/06tuberculosis.html?th&emc=th
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