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Two Million Already Dead
From XDR-TB In S Africa?
By Adriana Stuijt
6-10-7

Have 2 Million South Africans Already Died Of XDR-TB Since 2000?

DOKKUM, The Netherlands -- Among the World Health Organisation public archives, I located
several little-known studies proving that at least 2-million people must already have died in
South Africa -- of a condition then described as "HIV-TB co-infection", but which now is known
as Extremely-drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), thus-named because none of the usual
antibiotics against TB cures it. XDR-TB now kills its South African carriers within 14 to 20
days.

Often the SA laboratories can confirm the condition only after the XDR-TB patient has already
died.
One of these WHO-studies, with the catchy title of "the increasing global burden of
tuberculosis linked to human immunodeficiency virus " showed that by the year 2000, at least
two-million so- called "co-infected HIV-TB" patients had already been diagnosed in South Africa
alone, of whom some 178,540 patients had already died in the previous two years.

If the WHO experts who analysed these statistics were correct, it also means that at least
2-million people must already have died in South Africa of XDR-TB alone up to the year 2003,
when this study was undertaken. The SA epidemic shows that XDR-TB patients do not survive this
infection very long, -- hospitalised patients die of it within 14 to 20 days and it has a 100%
mortality-rate. What makes the present epidemic so worrisome however is that previously healthy
people now are also being identfied with XDR-TB in South Africa.

This 2003 study may have been WHO's first worldwide research on this subject -- in which they
reviewed three-year-old medical data from official notifications of TB cases, treatment
outcomes, surveys of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, and the HIV prevalence in patients
with TB and other subgroups (such as hepatitis-and syphillis-infected patients).

This information was collated from published literature and the databases held by the World
Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (UNAIDS), the US Census Bureau, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Result of the 2003 WHO study:

It showed that by 2000, at least 226,000 coinfected TB-HIV deaths had already occurred among
the 1.8million registered TB deaths worldwide.

And the highest number (178,540 or 79%) of these co-infected HIV-TB patients were diagnosed in
9 southern African countries -- with South Africa at its epicentre.
WHO also found more than 2-million co-infected TB-HIV patients in South Africa from the Year
2000 data -- and these patients must all have died since that time, because their bodies immune
systems would become progressively resistant to the six TB antibiotics then in use in South
Africa.
How to locating those deadly, micron-sized TB particles in the air... WHO also addressed
another major problem in another study a year later -- namely how find a quick, easy way to
identify the micron-sized TB-particles in the air. TB-bacteria have always been so dangerous
because they infect large groups of people very rapidly through the air.

By 2004, studies at several scientific labs of universities had developed a way to rapidly
detect single-cells of the micron-sized TB-bacteria in the air.It's not known whether these
detectors now may be in widespread use t -- they would be particularly useful for the airline
industry, which could measure passengers' breaths with it before they board flights. This
'bioaerosol mass specrometer' would of course also be very useful to prevent the spread of
XDR-TB into the world community.

The spectrometer is a rapid, stand-alone airborne TB particle detector for closed environments.
The study results were published in the Applied Environmental Micriobiology magazine of October
2005. The model was developed by the department of chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana as a portable, low cost, laser-guided TB-aerosol particle detector which has
since been patented by the John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. company.

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/eac/cont7.html
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109582272/ ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
WHO 2003 study links:

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:16204525
International Medicine May 2003, Page 163.burden of tuberculosis: global trends and
interactions with the HIV epidemic. [My paper] Elizabeth L Corbett , Catherine J Watt , Neff
Walker , Dermot Maher , Brian G Williams , Mario C Raviglione , Christopher Dye
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:12742798
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