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Yes, someone with tuberculosis (TB) who is coughing up blood can be contagious. TB is primarily spread through the air via respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. It is important for individuals with TB to seek medical treatment and follow precautions to prevent spreading the infection to others.
What else can I help you with?
Heavy fever and sweating are the symptom of TB?
well are you coughing up blood? Chyll u shuld consult a doctor
How can TB be bad for society?
Tuberculosis is a highly contagious respiratory disease, passed on by close contact with an infected person. The disease is passed on by coughing or sneezing. It is also lethal in many cases.
Is minimal Pulmonary Tuberculosis contagious?
Yes, TB is very contagious. It is easily spread through airborne bacteria, from someone who has TB sneezing, coughing and even their saliva.Yes, very.Tuberculosis is very contagious through saliva, coughing, and sneezing. Active TB cases are still kept isolated from non-infected people so the infection can be contained. Once the active phase has passed, a person with TB can still shed tuberculosis germs. This is one reason that all health care workers are tested yearly for TB.
What is a sentence for coughing?
he was coughing from an hour. coughing can result in TB.
Is TB a blood-borne pathogen?
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by an airborne pathogen but is also carried in the saliva. Infected persons can spread the pathogen by breathing, coughing, kissing, or by sharing drinking cups / straws with saliva on them. Infected persons wear a mask until treatment has reduced the number of viruses found (the viral load). A recent case on an overseas flight meant all passengers needed screened for TB and treated on a "just in case" basis because TB is highly contagious!
How does Tuberculosis cause coughing?
the body is trying to expell the tb bacteria.
What do you call the serious highly contagious disease of the respiratory system?
Tb
What is full form of tb?
Tuberculosis is the long form of TB. It is a contagious disease that is easily spread and attacks the respiratory system.
Methods of transmission of tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis (TB) is very contagious, and it is spread through the air. This usually occurs when a person who has the disease coughs or sneezes. The reason that coughing or sneezing transmits the disease is that TB bacteria are contained in tiny droplets; once a person who carries the disease begins coughing or sneezing, these bacteria are put into the air, where other people might inhale them.
How disease like tuberculosis and pneumonia transmit from and infected person to an healthy person?
For tuberculosis: it is transmitted by droplets, i.e. coughing or sneezing. For pneumonia: viral pneumonia, again, droplets. Bacterial pneumonia, normal body bacteria from the skin and mucous membranes, travel to the lungs and cause infection in the presence of fluid in the lungs, like there would be if you were congested. In all instances, having a suppressed immune system can increase the chances of getting the disease/illness.
Is tuberculosis countigous?
If you are asking if TB (tuberculosis) is contagious, the answer is yes. If you are asking if TB is contiguous, the answer is when it is a synthetic viral epitope and is contiguously linked.
What disease is TB?
Tuberculosis is a deadly disease of the respritory system that is slightly contagious.
