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Drug-resistant tuberculosis arises. They warn that the disease is new more lethal
ALERT. Miguel Angel Salazar, the INER, said that further steps be taken to detect tuberculosis (Photo: LUIS CORTEZ EL UNIVERSAL)
The public health system issued a health alert across the country in the presence of a challenging disease to be eradicated: tuberculosis, a disease that has acquired a new, more resistant and lethal.
The problem, experts say, is serious, since it is not typical or sensitive tuberculosis, as doctors call it, but of the so-called drug-resistant TB, the multidrug and extremely durable, diseases have become immune to one or more drugs that are traditionally used to cure a patient.
In the latter two cases, the cure rates decrease because the combination of drugs may be effective is not available in the country.
Mexico is not the only country with this alert. The disease is an emerging threat on the planet, says the World Health Organization (WHO), an organization that in 2010 warned that drug-resistant tuberculosis reached unprecedented levels, as in parts of Asia and Africa, one in four people is resistant to standard treatment regimens.
The WHO says that in the world there are about 600 thousand new cases a year of multidrug resistance, and that "at least 19% of those with multidrug resistance are extremely resilient," situation that called for countries to gain access universal diagnosis and treatment of these types of tuberculosis.
This disease is one of the oldest that attacks mainly the lungs and, if not treated early or adequately, it can cause death. It is spread by air when an infected person coughs and the bacillus spreads through saliva. He stays in people who have an illness that predisposes them and affects their defenses, like diabetes or HIV / AIDS.
Elizabeth Ferreira, researcher at the National Public Health Institute, says that in Latin America, the most sensitive levels of tuberculosis occur in Mexico, Brazil and Peru.
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