Health Care :: 10 Dangerous Ilness for Young People

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

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The development of technology and knowledge in modern medicine has found many ways to prevent the occurrence of disease, particularly the invention of modern technology vaccinations. However, despite many found various immunization in children, still dangerous diseases threatening the majority of children in the world.

This happens because the immunization program which has been run by various countries in the world can not work as desired due to various factors. The main cause of failure in immunization programs is low awareness and knowledge society, especially in developing countries, about the importance of immunization. What's more, this time, the middle part of certain groups campaigned intensively black or black campaign on immunization.

10 This is the most dangerous diseases in children

1. Lower respiratory tract infection

Deadly diseases in the modern world is a lower respiratory infection. Lower respiratory tract infections including pneumonia and bronchitis. Hard to believe, but the fact of lower respiratory tract infections far exceeded the number of deaths worldwide than AIDS and malaria. The death rate: more than 4 million people each year.

2. HIV / AIDS

The incidence: approximately 39.4 million people living with AIDS. HIV or human immunodeficiency virus is nothing more than erosion of a person's immune system, when a patient susceptible to other infections. As for AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is usually followed within 8 to 15 years, unless the patient is receiving treatment. Often times, the patient died of pneumonia after infection with TB or AIDS. The mortality rate: 3 million people per year.

3. Malaria

The incidence: 300-515000000 people diagnosed entered in this case every year, and most of them are in Africa. Malaria is transmitted by the world's deadliest animals known to man: the female anopheles mosquito. In fact, malaria can not be transferred through physical contact, but still only accounts for millions of deaths worldwide every year. Statistics show that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria in Africa. Mortality: 1-5 million people every year.

4. Diarrhea

The average infection rate: 4 billion cases diagnosed annually. Diarrhea in children is often caused by rotavirus. Other causes of diarrhea are cholera, dysentery, and a host of other bacterial infections, such as microscopic worms. Diarrhea is easily cured if treated early. Most deaths from diarrhea, especially in children, associated with dehydration. Mortality rate: about 2.2 million people every year.

5. Tuberculosis

The incidence: 2 billion people diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) each year. TB kills millions of people every year. Fact: one-third of the world's population is infected. However, even with all these facts, new TB cases is still a diagnosis from year to year. As if people do not really care anymore will catch the disease. TB symptoms include chills, fever, chronic cough, weakness, and weight loss. It is highly contagious and can be spread through sneezing and coughing. TB is undoubtedly one of the most deadly diseases in the world in terms of mortality rates. The mortality rate: 2 million lives each year.

6. Measles

Incidence rate: more than 30 million people, mostly children, infected every year. Measles can be easily cured, but deadly if left untreated. The disease occurs mainly in children, and especially in developing countries like Africa and a few in Southeast Asia. However, measles virus can infect even the adults. Measles can cause brain damage, blindness, and children vulnerable to diarrhea and pneumonia. Mortality: 1,400 people are estimated to die from measles every day.

7. Whooping cough

The incidence: 20 to 40 million cases diagnosed each year. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly lethal disease. It is highly contagious and, once a person is infected, the disease can cause a number of acute respiratory illness in a person. What seemed like a normal cough can kill you. Whooping cough can be treated with antibiotics. However, the vaccine is still the way to get optimal immune response. Mortality: 200,000 to 300,000 lives each year.

8. Tetanus


The incidence in the world: 500,000 cases diagnosed each year. By level, tetanus easily defeats meningitis and syphilis with high rates of infection and deaths. You see, clostridium tetani, tetanus spores of bacteria that live in the soil, and so on, there are everywhere. Something as simple as a small cut or wound can infect you with the disease a few days after contact with dirty surfaces. Countries in Southeast Asia and the Sahara, Africa, each having 82,000 deaths and 84,000 lives each year, although the tetanus infection can be found all over the world. Mortality: 214,000 people each year.

9. Infection of the lining of the brain (meningitis)


Meningitis can be caused by bacteria. 9th deadly disease in the modern world is the common meningitis. The average number of infections: More than 1 million people every year. Meningitis is one of the most deadly diseases in the world, not just in terms of mortality rates, but also in life after full recovery as well. Fatal infection include brain and spinal cord regions. In fact, with early diagnosis and treatment are carried out immediately, 5 to 10 percent of patients who experience still not helped. As many as 10 to 20 percent of patients who have been cured suffer hearing loss, brain damage, or learning disabilities. Mortality: 174,000 lives each year.

10. Diphtheria

Diseases caused by this bacteria, including dangerous and can be life-threatening in children quickly. Signs and symptoms only started fever and sore throat and white patches in the throat incidence. If not treated quickly, it can be immediately life-threatening because it can stop respiratory tract, the heart, so it can quickly be life-threatening because of the complications.

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