Tuberculosis could result in hunchback and other deformities arising from spine and other destruction to bones in the body, a leading medical practitioner in private practice in Nigeria, Dr Biodun Ogungbo, has said. Ogungbo said in a statement he made available to National Mirror recently in commemoration of this year’s World Tuberculosis Day that tuberculosis, otherwise known as TB remains an epidemic in many countries in the world, with an estimated 9.6 million new cases in 2014, worldwide.
According to him, while TB has been eliminated in Europe and the Americas, the disease still remains a threat in Nigeria, India, China, and Indonesia. He informed that the theme of this year’s World TB Day commemoration in Nigeria is ‘’Find TB, Treat TB and Working together to Eliminate TB’’ while the slogan is ‘’Unite to End TB’’.
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“Tuberculosis affects people in many different ways and comes in many guises. Many people think that TB only affects the lungs and causes the sufferer to cough while losing a lot weight. This is perhaps the commonest way TB presents. But, many other sufferers do not have cough as it affects their bones leading to destruction of the spine and deformity. Many of the patients with hunchbacks may have suffered from TB of the bone.
“Tuberculosis also affects children. TB in a child is of special significant and a real public health hazard. It shows that the child has been recently exposed to TB and calls for serious screening of the contacts of the child. In children, TB can be very devastating. TB can easily spread throughout the body and lead to life threatening illnesses such as TB meningitis.
“TB bacteria are spread from person to person through the air. The TB bacteria are put into the air when a person with TB disease of the lungs coughs, sneezes, speaks, sings or spits indiscriminately. People with TB disease of the lungs can spread bacteria to others with whom they spend time every day.
By: Marcus Fatatunmole
National Mirror News
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