HOW THE OLD THREAT CAME BACK AS A NEW THREAT:

In the early 1900’s and throughout the industrial revolution, the number one leading cause of dea

Generally, when patients have severe pulmonary MDR–TB, portions of infected tissues are extracted and sometimes an entire lung is taken out of the body, leaving behind an emaciated person. Another procedure involves air injections into the lungs to compress them so that they can rest and have time to heal more easily. All of these painful procedures are stemming from an iatrogenic immunity and the fact that, again, these countries cannot afford the drugs that they need.

Russia’s prison system is currently a grim situation. Their budgets are extremely thin and their health programs are terrible. There have been increases in stress, alcohol use, poverty, overcrowding and IV drug use. In the year 2000 deaths due to TB alone rose 30% (Zuger, F9). The prison system with its extreme overcrowding is just a breeding ground for the spread of TB. People share cells with sometimes 80 other people and have to take turns sleeping and standing because there isn’t enough room. There is only one toilet and one sink and the inmates are only allowed one trip to the shower per week.

These findings show the need to increase control efforts in high-risk populations for active case findings and to assure the completion of therapy. Second-line drugs will need to be introduced to increase the cure rates in case groups, but this can only happen when stricter protocols are introduced and training among health officials in the area increases. Priority must be given to prevention not the management. It is essential for the health officials to never prescribe solely one drug for a TB when they are residing in a high-risk area for MDR-TB. Officials need to make sure that patients are adhering to the treatment, and if they aren’t those who abscond from treatment need to be identified as early as possible. The hypothesis is that those living near large prison populations will in fact be more susceptible to MDR-TB.

The controls in the study will be patients with culture-confirmed drug-susceptible TB. The case patients themselves will be MDR-TB patients who are resistant to at least isoniaziad and streptomycin. The ages of the participants will range from 20-49 so as to not throw off the data by having too many old patients with additional complications. All participants will not be HIV positive either, since this could introduce other complications as well. Center for Disease Control and WHO will work together to examine trends in MDR-TB patients versus those not having drug resistance. The data to be collected will be on such things as being previously incarcerated and hospitalized. Do the cases travel more than the controls? How many in each group are employed and how many in each group use alcohol? How much alcohol? Do they smoke? Were they ever homeless?

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