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香港政府
GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Sunday, November 26, 1972
HONG KONG FIGHTS TUBERCULOSIS
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Hong Kong is playing a leading role in the worldwide battle
against the killer disease
tuberculosis,
One of the world's top specialists on TB, Dr. Wallace Fox, in
collaboration with local medical services, is using Hong Kong as a field
of study for a new short-term course of treatment.
In the past, patients have been given drugs to take daily at hone
for up to two years. This proved unsatisfactory as many sufferers took
the medicine irregularly.
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For nearly two years government clinics in Hong Kong have been
using a different approach to fight the disease which last year killed
nearly three times the number of people that died in road accidents here.
During the first two or three months of treatment, the patient
visits a clinic daily where the drug is administered under supervision.
Visits are then reduced to twice a week for about 18 months.
This form of treatment has met with great success, claiming a
90 to 95 per cent cure rate.
The big disadvantage is the length of time involved and the large
quantities of drugs needed. To overcome these problems,it is now thought
that a much shorter course of treatment, from six to nine months, can prove
just as effective although using exactly the same drugs and dosages.
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