Zhang Wenhong calls for prevention and control of tuberculosis from new crown pneumonia. Why is there such a strange phone call?

The epidemic in COVID-19 disrupted the fight against tuberculosis, and finally stopped the treatment of some tuberculosis patients. The total number of tuberculosis patients is also decreasing because they missed the opportunity to go to the hospital for diagnosis and testing. As we all know, the outbreak of COVID-19-type lung infection also provides new opportunities for accelerating the overall goal of sustainable development in the next decade and solving tuberculosis. Improve the public health service management system, apply new technologies, invest a lot of assets, and ensure excellent emergency response capabilities. This countermeasure to prevent basal metabolic pneumonia is also applicable to the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis.

The continuous development, design and application of new technologies have greatly promoted the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. According to Li Liang, vice president of Beijing Chest Hospital, at this stage, a biological nondestructive testing technology has been applied to the diagnosis of tuberculosis. This method can quickly improve the sensitivity of bacteria detection by using gene technology. Its basic principle is that even a few bacteria can be detected according to gene amplification technology.

At present, some hospital outpatient departments, such as Beijing Chest Hospital, have introduced and applied this biological nondestructive testing technology. Qian said that in terms of prevention in novel coronavirus, the popularization of molecular diagnosis network, the implementation of diagnosis and treatment guidelines, the follow-up and inspection of close contacts and community vaccination will lay a solid foundation for the prevention of tuberculosis. Especially in China, the main threat of tuberculosis comes from the self-limited disease tuberculosis virus infection. The close contact screening strategy adopted to prevent the epidemic of new coronary pulmonary infection pneumonia only provides reference for finding tuberculosis virus infection in self-limited diseases and expanding tuberculosis prevention.

Zhang Wenhong shows that whether it is pulmonary infection in COVID-19 or tuberculosis, hepatitis, AIDS, etc. Preventing infectious diseases is not only a matter for many patients at present, but also a major event for mankind. Every disaster will give people another development. The prevention of infectious diseases has once again become the focus and development trend of environmental health work. It is necessary to create and shape a rapid and reasonable infectious disease prevention and management system and working ability. The intervention measures needed to eliminate tuberculosis can be the best way to create and maintain the excellent operation of health projects, and also lay the foundation for preventing and solving the next infectious disease as soon as possible.