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⑧Better Control of TB seen if a faster cure is found
The World anization estimates that about one-third of all people are infected with bacteria that cause tuberculosis(结核) . Most times, the infection remains inactive(无效). But each year about eight million people develop active cases of TB, usually in their ____1____. Two million people die ____2____ it. The disease has ____3____ with the spread of AIDS and drug-resistant(耐药性) forms of tuberculosis.
Current treatments take at least six months. Patients have to ____4____ bination (组合)of several antibiotic drugs daily. But many people stop ____5____ they feel better. Doing that can ____6____ to an infection that resists treatment. Public health experts agree that a faster-acting cure for tuberculosis would be more effective. Now a study estimates(估计) just how ____7____ it might be. A professor of international health at Harvard University led the study. Joshua Salomon says a shorter(短期) treatment program would likely mean not just more patients ____8____. It would also mean ____9____ infectious patients who can pass on their infection to others.
The researchers developed a mathematical(数学) model to examine the effects of a two-month treatment plan. They ____10____ the model with current TB conditions in Southeast Asia. The scientists found that a two-month treatment could prevent about twenty percent of new cases. And it might ____11____ about twenty-five percent of TB deaths. The model shows that these ____12____ would take place between two thousand twelve and two thousand thirty. That is, if a faster cure is developed and in wide use by two thousand twelve.
The World anization ____13____ the DOTS(短期直接观察治疗) program in een y. DOTS is Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course(短期课程). Health workers watch tuberculosis patients take their daily pills to make ____14____ they continue treatment.
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