BANDUNG. (24/03). RZ bersama Cita Sehat Foundation mengkampanyekan “STOP Tubercolosis Lindungi Remaja dari Rokok”. Sumber penularan TB Paru adalah penderita TB BTA positif jenis bakteri Mycobacterium Tuberculosisyang pertama kali ditemukan oleh seseorang yang bernama Robert Koch pada tanggal 24 Maret 1882.
Pada waktu batuk atau bersin, penderita menyebarkan kuman ke udara dalam bentuk droplet (percikan dahak). Orang dapat terinfeksi kalau droplet tersebut terhirup ke dalam saluran pernafasan kemudian menyebar dari paru ke bagian tubuh lainnya melalui sistem peredaran darah, sistem saluran limfe, saluran nafas atau penyebaran langsung ke bagian tubuh lain. Pada tahun 2009 berdasarkan WHO Global Tuberculosis Control 2010, mencatat peringkat Indonesia berada di posisi lima dengan jumlah penderita TBC sebesar 429 ribu orang.
Dalam rangka hari TB sedunia, RZ bersama CSF melakukan kampanye kepada lebih dari 1000 siswa SMP di SMPN 45 Bandung mengenai TBC dan Merokok. Dr. Stanton Glantz, direktur pusat pendidikan dan penelitian pengendalian penggunaan tembakau Universitas California USA “Merokok tidak menyebabkan TB karena TB disebabkan Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Tetapi merokok mengurangi kekebalan tubuh dan membuat orang terkena infeksi paru-paru akut bisa terkena bakteri TB dan mungkin meninggal.”
Ibu Popon selaku wakil kepala sekolah bagian kesiswaan “kami berterimakasih kepada RZ dan CSF, telah mengenalkan TBC kepada remaja sekaligus mengingatkan remaja agar tidak merokok dalam bentuk penyuluhan kesehatan dan pembagian stiker, kami harapkan lebih banyak lagi kegiatan dari semacam ini untuk remaja.***
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BANDUNG. Tuesday (24/3), RZ and CSF invited 1000 secondary student to participate in “Stop Tuberculosis and Save Teens from Cigarette” campaign at SMPN 45 Bandung. In this action, RZ and CSF shared the materials which explained the dangers of tuberculosis and smoking.
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus), in the past also called phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, is a widespread, and in many cases fatal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections do not have symptoms, known as latent tuberculosis. About one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected.
Roughly one-third of the world’s population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause TB disease, and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were active. In 2010, 8.8 million new cases of TB were diagnosed, and 1.20–1.45 million deaths occurred, most of these occurring in developing countries of these 1.45 million deaths, about 0.35 million occur in those also infected with HIV.
Popon, the vice principle of SMPN 45 Bandung, said “we’d like to say thank to RZ and CSF which have introduced the dangers of TB and smoking. We hope that the program will be implemented continuously.” ***
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