Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Feared by Europeans

Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Feared by Europeans

Tuberculosis Resistance.  The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned Wednesday the public about the new strain of extensively multidrug-resistant forms of deadly disease, tuberculosis (TB) which alarmingly are spreading across the continent of Europe. The WHO has also expressed concern about the possibility of a pandemic resurgence that might kill thousands unless health authorities do precautionary and preventive measures to control the new strains of TB.

The deadly disease is known to be airborne and currently, the WHO has laid down its plan and measures to diagnose and treat the disease better and more effectively. The European director of the WHO warned European countries about the possible economic risk the airborne disease might cause if incase it won’t be properly handled causing to a pandemic that would mean more economic costs in the future.

The world hopes to stop a resurgence of TB especially at the brick of a world financial slowdown. TB kills 1.7 million people across the world every year. It is already a pandemic and is very common in developing countries. The known TB bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, had already been eradicated in industrialized countries. The concern now is the rise of the more drug-resistance strains, MDR-TB and XDR TB, spreading fast with 440,000 new cases every year worldwide.

Posted by George Daniels on Thursday September 15 2011, 3:15 AM EDT. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0