Is tuberculosis the most common bacterial disease affecting the pulmonary system?

Answer 1

Yes...unfortunantely. It is very common worldwide--and it's very deadly as well. If you want more information, I suggest you got this page: http://www.dhpe.org/infect/tb.html Hope this helped! =)

Answer 2

it is MUCH more common than you would think!

people (like the majority of the world) with strong immune systems, are able to fight it off. however, it is in fact in the air world wide (even in the US) which is why people who have compromised immune systems are more susceptible to getting it.

Answer 3

while Tuberculosis was nearly wiped out in the US especially, it has made a huge comeback, and in more violent strains that are immune to drug treatment. Most of this problem is coming from the illegal Immigration situation, which is the one factor to criminal aliens that is never talked about. They come into the country unchecked, not like in the old days of Ellis Island, and as they come in they spread diseases that they carry in. San Francisco has a huge TB issue now with so many illegal immigrants from CHina in the city. some areas are basically at epidemic levels, but the media does not want you to know this.The global survey assessed the prevalence, patterns and trends of TB drug resistance in 109 countries.

In the 79 countries surveyed between 1999 and 2002, multi-drug resistance in new TB cases ranged from zero to 14.2 per cent, with a median of one per cent. In the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Henan, the percentage was over 6.5 per cent.

Answer 4

At the turn of the twentieth century more than 80% of the population in the United States were infected before age 20, and tuberculosis was the single most common cause of death. By 1938 there were more than 700 TB hospitals in this country.

Answer 5

no