Tuberculosis Case Study
Epidemiology Report of Tuberculosis
Tania Castillo
Tania Castillo
Epidemiology Report of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial disease that is highly in development countries. This disease is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an acid-fast aerobic bacillus, which is prevalent in tropical areas across the globe. For instance, the majority of the cases occur in malnourish individuals, immigrants and elderly persons. Most of the person’s who has the disease are concurrent for many years, and the reactivation process is easily to detect in the primary stage.
In 2013 new cases of tuberculosis were reported in United States, which increase the incidence rate of 3.0 cases per 100.000 populations, the among of people is imminent in the states of California, Texas New York and Florida; and one of the third part of United States is greater in some specific areas in the counties. At this point, the mortality rate is prevalent in New York hospitals, and correctional facilities in Florida with a lower percent of survival. Certainly, the poverty in our country is significant that cover some areas in the community and most of those people are homeless that suffer for tuberculosis more than a year prior to diagnosis actively. This include people the origin Hispanic or non-Hispanic, and the statistic shows that they are homelessness, incarceration, and human immunodeficiency virus HIV in the street that are susceptible to the drugs. At this point, the Health Department attributed this problematic situation to the environment and housing status of every single one in the street, and the number increase each year because of the poverty in some determinate areas.
However, the transmission of this disease is present when a person doesn’t know that have the tubercle bacilli, and living without observation discharge thrown on floor, walls and furniture the sputum. After this point, tuberculosis spreads by inhalation of droplets
Tania Castillo
Tania Castillo
Epidemiology Report of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial disease that is highly in development countries. This disease is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an acid-fast aerobic bacillus, which is prevalent in tropical areas across the globe. For instance, the majority of the cases occur in malnourish individuals, immigrants and elderly persons. Most of the person’s who has the disease are concurrent for many years, and the reactivation process is easily to detect in the primary stage.
In 2013 new cases of tuberculosis were reported in United States, which increase the incidence rate of 3.0 cases per 100.000 populations, the among of people is imminent in the states of California, Texas New York and Florida; and one of the third part of United States is greater in some specific areas in the counties. At this point, the mortality rate is prevalent in New York hospitals, and correctional facilities in Florida with a lower percent of survival. Certainly, the poverty in our country is significant that cover some areas in the community and most of those people are homeless that suffer for tuberculosis more than a year prior to diagnosis actively. This include people the origin Hispanic or non-Hispanic, and the statistic shows that they are homelessness, incarceration, and human immunodeficiency virus HIV in the street that are susceptible to the drugs. At this point, the Health Department attributed this problematic situation to the environment and housing status of every single one in the street, and the number increase each year because of the poverty in some determinate areas.
However, the transmission of this disease is present when a person doesn’t know that have the tubercle bacilli, and living without observation discharge thrown on floor, walls and furniture the sputum. After this point, tuberculosis spreads by inhalation of droplets
References: CDC. World TB Day, Trends in tuberculosis United States, (March 24, 2014), Vol. 63:229-33. Retrieved March 21, 2014, from www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm6311.pdf HH – TB. Tuberculosis: A Persistent Threat to Public Health, (December 2013), Vol. 18. Retrieved March 21, 2014 from www.nhchc.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/.../winter2014healinghands.pd...