Ironically, one of the world's most highly treated diseases is also one of the leading infectious-diseases today. It is tuberculosis, and its being highly deadly despite it being easily treated is often related to poverty as people who are below the poverty line are most likely exposed to TB-inducing environments and add to that the lack o access to medicine.
In some countries, treatment to this disease is given for free but lack of information dissemination is still a hindrance. Unfortunately, southern Chile is still TB-infected.
[404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. pitt. edu/ ~pittanth/ grad/ research/ paluzziphd. html, anchor: Link: The Road to Health: The Experience of Tuberculosis in Southern Chile ]
Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So:
