Read the whole thing.
What is bad is the note about someone dying of TB...
TB is a disease of malnutrition...most docs in the US, until HIV appeared, had seen few cases....(I had seen many in Africa and when I worked in the US in the Indian Health Service)...
And TB is easily treated.
My husband's father died of TB, and more recently, his sister died of pneumonia related to her TB exacerbating from old age (she was in her 80's)...My husband also had it after the war...his father died during the depression, and there was a lot of malnutrition in the Philippines during World War II...so after the war, he developed TB while going to medical school...
But he had friends who arranged for him to get Streptomycin...and he injected himself for 18 months...as a result, he has a hearing loss (streptomycin can affect the auditory nerve) but he is alive....
Nowadays, we usually use two or three antibiotics, and TB resistance is common with HIV, where it is harder to treat...but essentially it is a disease of poverty.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
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