By Pabodha Hettige
The Anti-Tuberculosis Unit warns the health authorities to be vigilant over the returnees to the country from India for being potential tuberculosis carriers. Currently the disease is said to be rapidly spreading in India.
"The persons with tuberculosis symptoms should be immediately directed to the centres established countrywide for immediate treatment to prevent the country being further affected by the disease," the Director of the Anti-Tuberculosis Unit Dr. Sunil de Alwis said.
According to Dr. Alwis already one third of the world’s population is diagnosed with the disease and nearly 10,000 cases are annually reported from Sri Lanka.
He said that the disease was not acute and would only show the symptoms only few years after the bacteria enter the body. The disease could be completely cured through proper medical treatment.
However, the strain of tuberculosis spreading in India is reported to be totally drug-resistant and had infected at least 12 Sri Lankans in the past three months.
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