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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>World Tb Day,2012</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Part of celebrations at IRT PMC, Perundurai) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred years ago, Koch found<br>The bacillus causing TB, <br>That gave the world's scientists the ground<br>To find the drugs as remedy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, TB was a pandemic, <br>And was called ‘Consumption' that killed<br>The high and low, as all turned sick<br>And sanatoria all filled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most people feared the ‘phthisis' much; <br>And treatment was by good food, air; <br>And nurses gave the magic touch<br>Of kindness, tender loving care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bacilli by droplets spread<br>To lungs, and every body part; <br>The person melted, ridden-bed -<br>A downhill course right from the start! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then came the anti-TB drugs<br>That inhibited growth of rod; <br>A prolonged course thus healed the lungs: <br>A two year treatment looking odd! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred years from then, today, <br>Disease is rampant in third world, <br>As many people huddled stay; <br>HIV heralds ‘Abscess Cold'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a cure for TB now, <br>As DOTS and DOTS PLUS can save most; <br>Unhalted stays the disease, oh, <br>As people die or it turns worst! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Resistant strains emerge out fast, <br>Though patients can be healed at home; <br>No more the disease looks aghast, <br>As ‘six-months' treatment is welcome! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, millions continue to die, <br>Despite new drugs and early finds<br>Of cases, testing that can't lie, <br>And cures are rather very high! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The war against TB must wage; <br>The dreaded disease must be stopped; <br>No one shall die in any age; <br>Resistant strains must all be mopped! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let's contribute our mite today; <br>The fight to STOP TB is on; <br>All third world nations must find way<br>As newer diseases are born! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank Robert Koch for his work hard; <br>Thank scientists who find newer drugs; <br>Thank doctors, nurses in each ward; <br>All sputa must be freed off bugs! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written by Dr. A.Celestine Raj Manohar M.D., <br>Dean & Prof. of Medicine, IRT PMC, PERUNDURAI<br>and Dedicated to 'World TB DAY 2012'<br>‘STOP TB IN YOUR LIFETIME! '<br>Copyright by Dr John Celes 17-03-2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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A hundred years ago, Koch found
The bacillus causing TB, 
That gave the world's scientists the ground
To find the drugs as remedy.

Then, TB was a pandemic, 
And was called ‘Consumption' that kille..."></div>
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