"The World Health Organization's longstanding strategy for fighting tuberculosis is showing deadly unintended consequences: By focusing for years on the easiest to cure patients, it helped allow TB strains to spread that re now all but untreatable by modern medicine."
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Wall Street Journal-Friday November 23, 2012
Though TB is not a disease that is currently at issue here in the US, it is very much a problem in poor and emerging countries throughout the world. Why so you ask. Are the drugs not strong enough or has the disease some how mutated? The common answer is a little of both. But, I would say that the greatest problem facing poor countries is poor sanitation and inadequate living space. The US had the same issues with TB in the late 1800's after the first wave of Irish immigration. TB and Pneumonia were the leading killers at that time. Not until the expansion of the population out of core of cities and tenement housing and the advent of more sophisticated sanitation did TB and Pneumonia deaths ebb.
The treatment of disease and dysfunction with medication is paramount in order to buy time to unearth and fix the core problems. WHO has no doubt tried to improve the conditions that the populous of these poorer nations face but cannot change the ideology of the politicians. In the meantime, as the populations increase the diseases become increasingly hard to treat and more individuals suffer slow and agonizing deaths.
Lesson to be Learned: True health comes from Above-Down and Inside-Out.
Dr David Marcon
Marcon Chiropractic & Wellness Center
Cincinnati Ohio 45244
www.marconchiropractic.com
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