Nearly half compatriot is that tubercle bacillus carriers endanger and far exceed AIDS

Nearly half compatriot is that tubercle bacillus carriers endanger and far exceed AIDS
The core is pointed out: This is the tragedy that a piece of mankind resists old bacterium, it is the tragedy that the market income haggles with human nature even more. Bill and Gates has taken a stand: The market will not take notice of penniless buyer, a lot of diseases correlated to poverty are innovating and putting into relatively deficienting.
Staff reporter Chen JiangHong
It is the 15th on March 24 " World Tuberculosis Prevention and Cure Day " ,Patient tuberculosis of China Mainland has been already up to 5 million people, and increase patient 1,500,000 newly every year, nearly 130,000 people die of this disease, mean age is only 55 years old, have already exceeded the total of the death of other infectious diseases of China.
Half the number compatriot is tubercle bacillus carriers
As early as 500,000 years ago, the tubercle bacillus had already invaded the human body. Statistics from WHO, among these 100 years of 1850-1950, there is victim that 1 billion persons become tubercle bacillus in all in the whole world.
In China, during two Conferences, deputy to the National People's Congress, Zhong NanShan, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, once said to reporters this year, according to epidemic disease investigation result that our country carried on in 2000, there are 4,500,000 active tuberculosis patients in all in the whole country, the carrier is up to 550 million, that is to say, nearly half the Chinese are carriers of the tubercle bacillus, the tubercle bacillus carrier will have illness coming on to have a 10% chance in all one's life.
At the beginning of last century, the mankind invented the Streptomycin curing tuberculosis specially, found 4 kinds of specific antibiotic including rifampin successively later.
Over the past 40 years, these 4 kinds of antibiotic are a gleam of medicine to treat tuberculosis, the drug effect is good, the expenses are cheap, but a gleam of medicine of these 4 kinds must be taken at the same time, and should obey the above of half a year in succession, could remove the tuberculosis germ completely out of body.
"In our country, the ordinary tuberculosis patient can accuse of centre's getting from disease of the registered permanent residence site free, even at one's own expense, the expenses of each course of treatment are on several hundred yuan. " On March 19, the chest former chief of institute Fu Yu of institute of oncology of tuberculosis of Beijing says to reporter of " Times of public service ", most patient, in last after condition take a favorable turn several week, relax vigilance, stop, take medicine right away, there is not symptom on the surface, but the patient begins to produce and is able to bear nature in the body, once have illness coming on again, in the past no matter once using efficacious specific drug was used, can manage it while utilizing the expensive Line two medicine.
Endanger and far exceed AIDS
2006, South Africa erupt one terrible tuberculosis, patient the intersection of tuberculosis and fungus in the body produce, able to bear nature to anti-tuberculous drug almost all the! This is able to bear tuberculosis of medicine extensively, the patient does not basically have medicine that can be managed, can only leave it to chance.
In the face of such serious consequence, the countries all over the world take action.
Last April, " able to bear many medicines able to bear tuberculosis of medicine and bear the country high extensively " that is held in Beijing At the ministerial meeting, Dr. Margaret Chan, Secretary General of World Health Organization, and 27 high health ministers who bears the country in the world have attended this meeting.
Minister of Chinese Ministry of Public Health Chen Zhu notifies at the meeting China is able to bear the situation of tuberculosis of medicine: China disease prevent and control sample investigation of centre, reveal the intersection of Chinese and in the patient tuberculosis, it is 8.32% to be able to bear many medicine morbidity, total is about 120,000 people, the total quantity is second only to the location of India and occupy the second place in the world, it is 0.68% to be able to bear the medicine morbidity extensively, total is probably 10,000 people, it endangers and far exceeds AIDS.
This is Chinese Government's the first time to avow that has found able to bear the medicine tuberculosis patient extensively in China's Mainland.
At this meeting, Margaret Chan, Secretary General of WHO, is weighed down with anxieties: If able to bear tuberculosis of medicine being controlled extensively, the mankind will be taken back to the era tuberculosis nearly at a loss what to do.
" tuberculosis is the disease which the poor get " It is a common understanding of the public health field, this is very big reason not presenting new medicine in 40 too. "The research and development of a new medicine needs to invest a large number of manpower, material resources, financial resources, though have producer to be strong to do, research and develop always, colony that tuberculosis direct against the poor mostly, economic income question after will consider of the producer tooing. " A epidemiology professor insisting on anonymity tells reporters.

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