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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3BODY OF ESSAY..........................................................................................................................3Global epidemiology of the Tuberculosis disease.......................................................................3Issues and challenges among nurses in preparing for pandemic emergency...............................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTIONApandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a large regionthrough human population. There are many types of this diseases such as; AIDS, Ebola,Influenza, Spanish flu, Swine Flu, etc. This occurs when a new influenza viruses and spreadsaround the world. The present essay of nursing is based on the Tuberculosis that is a type ofpandemic disease. Tuberculosis is a potentially fatal contagious disease that affect almost anypart of the body but mainly it is an infection of lungs. According to the WHO, “Tuberculosis alsocall as TB, it is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis that mostcommonly affect the lungs (Tuberculosis, 2019). The present essay will discuss on theepidemiology and will discuss about the Tuberculosis in depth and along with it, the issues andchallenges will discuss among the nurses in preparing for pandemic emergency.BODY OF ESSAYIntroductionIn the research article Tuberculosis is defined as one of the major public health concern,that is competing with the human immunodeficiency virus that also called HIV that cause deathbecause of infectious disease worldwide (Getahun and et. al., 2015). There are many reasonsfrom this disease occurs such as; it spread from person to person through the air as the germsspread in the air by cough, spit or sneeze by affected person in the air. The epidemiology ismentioned by the World Health Organisation. It generally transmitted from person to personthrough droplets from the throat and lungs of human being with the active respiratory disease.The UK Sustainable development goals and WHO's End TB strategy have define the ambitioustargets for 2019-2036 that include a 36% of reduction in the absolute number of deaths caused byTB and 21% reduction in the TB cases by 2020.Global epidemiology of the Tuberculosis diseaseAccording to the WHO, World Health Organisation, approx 8.5 million cases come infront in 2012 from across the world and in this ratio around 2.8 were women (World HealthOrganization, 2016). Most of the case seen in Africa and Asia and the hight percentile country isIndia, China that accounting together 39% of the total number of cases. TB mentioned as one ofthe top 10 reason of death worldwide (Tuberculosis: distribution, risk factors, mortality, 2019).The study shows that around 10 million people in 2017 fell ill with Tuberculosis and approx 1.5
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