6 Essential Facts About Tuberculosis

More than two million people or a third of all world men come down with "Mycobacterium tuberculosis," a bacterium that causes tuberculosis. It is known that tuberculosis is the seventh causes of death in the world. That disease kills 1,77 million people in 2007 and 1,8 million people all over the world in 2009.

Reuters say that tuberculosis is also one of the diseases that deals with poverty, instead of AIDS and malaria. The followings are 6 essential facts about tuberculosis:

1. Tuberculosis spread easily through air. When infected person coughs, sneezes, speaks, or spits, he gets the bacteria out. Just a little bacterium is already able to spread. One person becomes the new infected person of tuberculosis every second.

2. Almost all spreading of tuberculosis are hidden because its carriers do not show its indication and they are not infected. However, one of 10 people will come down with this disease along the time because of the weakness of his immune system.

3. From 1,8 million of death in 2008 or 4.930 death in a day, a half million of them are AIDS patients. Most tuberculosis usually attack young men that are in their most productive time and most of the deaths happen in developing countries. More than half of deaths happen in Asia, like Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippine.

4. The World Bank estimates that the disease can lose 4-7% of gross domestic income of some countries that come down with.

5. Tuberculosis that is incurable is usually caused by medicinal treatment by halves and it often happens to patients that stop their treatments when they feel better.

6. The most dangerous tuberculosis is incurable tuberculosis that anti-isoniazid and rifampicin, the strongest anti-tuberculosis medicines. And, this kind of tuberculosis seldom happens in the world. Between 35% and 50% patients of this kind of tuberculosis die.