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San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba-Today is the World Day to combat Tuberculosis, a disease that this century is gaining strength and health sectors, continue the prophylactic work to subtract it from spreading, of course, our territory has its cases and work on it.
San Antonio de los Baños, is classified as a moderate incidence of tuberculosis in the province, this means that a territory is constantly being diagnosed cases. At the moment, is serving five patients with treatment that is not so bad, but if properly diagnosed with high encodings, which means that we are above the average for the province and is another disease that is striking, since is one of the most infectious, one of the most that affects human life in the world and is credited with a rise in the population of our country.
According to Yazmin González, Doctor of the Hygiene and Epidemiology Sector, communicable disease specialist: "TB is a social disease that is transmitted from person to person, it is difficult to contain the epidemic, but because the world had achieved satisfactory levels of incidence, but it is important that people know that the environments in which we must not be strained by moisture, is one of the fundamental things, must be well ventilated wherever they work in places where we live, in areas where more time we spend, we must create opportunities for ventilation, natural ventilation, eliminate overcrowding in places where you sleep, improve nutrition".
It is a disease with which we come in contact almost every day, all people, but if our immune system is competent and accomplished in a successful way overshadow the influenza bacillus, as the patient is not infested and is one of the causes the more we attribute this situation as nutrition through food, patients are able to strengthen your immune system.
Among the most affected groups in San Antonio de los Baños, we have elders who are immunocompromised, prisoners, alcoholic patients, pregnant women, patients who have had treatments that have reduced their immune system by overuse of steroids and the patient living with HIV. This range is likely to get sick with the bacillus of Koch "...
Mass organizations and the media, prepare and educate the public to know the necessary steps to help minimize spreading the disease.
