Nigeria has the highest burden of tuberculosis in Africa. So it is quite correct to say Nigeria has one of the highest risks of contacting tuberculosis, because an individual with tuberculosis, according to the public health scientific information available, can affect 1, 12 to 15 persons per year. Therefore, that there is high risk of getting Tuberculosis when you stay with people with the disease.
Why is it so, is it because we are careless or is there anything we should have done as a country that we have failed to its with regards to preventing the occurrence and spread?
Basically, the reason tuberculosis is a big health problem in our country is because Nigeria is also a country with the highest burden of HIV/AIDS, in sub-saharan Africa, along with South Africa. And because Nigeria has got huge reservoir of people infected with HIV/AIDS, it implies that many immune systems are affected and that predisposes to inciting or activating an existing tuberculosis legion in the land.
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/columns/views/interview/14227-there-is-high-rate-of-tuberculosis-in-nigeria--dr-kadir
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