There is an issue today that is causing much harm in places like Eastern Europe and Central Asia. There has been an outbreak in small Eastern European countries of tuberculosis and doctors have discovered that there is something different about the tuberculosis. They have found that this tuberculosis (TB) is actually harder to cure. Studies have shown that this disease is actually stronger than it has been in the past, because TB actually has a vaccine for it, but people with the disease are saying if they are treated with regular medicine than it actually makes them feel worse. Doctors have said that the problems the patients are having are very severe such as loss of hearing, loss of sight, and severe depression. This outbreak is a terrible and what doctors have found is that it is still curable, but the curing process takes eighteen to twenty four months.
This issue is considered a global social problem because this is a disease that could spread throughout the entire world if it is not stopped. Even though it is curable this issue is terrible for many people because people are losing jobs or even being deserted by families and friends because people do not want the disease or want to wait for them to be cured. This issue is something that needs to be stopped or it could become a huge epidemic. Tuberculosis is also spreading in other places and if doctors to not figure everything out then eventually it could spread to the Americas.
Riley Sigmon
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/06/12/182903139/faces-of-drug-resistant-tb
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