AN EPIC BATTLE IS MOUNTING BETWEEN MAN AND MICROBE. CAN YOU DEFEND YOUR CITY AGAINST TB?

Meet Dr. Connie Elecktra-Phoresis, the health commissioner of Micropolis. This city's promising future is threatened by a growing number of tuberculosis cases. Dr. Elecktra-Phoresis needs your knowledge of TB to help her fight this lethal germ!

HERE ARE SOME STATISTICS ABOUT THE EPIDEMIC

  • There are 3,811 people with active and possibly contagious TB. They are sick.
  • Eighty percent, 3,048 people, have typical TB.
  • Twenty percent, 762 people, have MDR TB (multidrug-resistant TB), the kind that does not respond to typical TB drugs like isoniazid, ethambutol, rifampin and streptomycin. They will require newer and more costly drugs.
  • Forty percent, 1,524 people, also have an HIV infection. They will need extra care and costly drugs.
  • Over 34,000 Micropolitans have latent TB and could start to have TB symptoms.

Top photo: TB- and HIV-infected patient, UWLF

Lower photo: TB drug, Rifafour

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