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In the United States, 0.0042% of the population has tuberculosis.

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Which disease has infected one third of the world's population?

Tuberculosis


Who does tuberculosis harm most?

The classic organ affected by tuberculosis is the lung. Many other organs may be infected.


Strep throat and tuberculosis both are caused by contact with infected?

These illnesses are spread by contact with infected mucus.


What part of the body most often becomes infected with tuberculosis?

your lungs


Was there a tuberculosis outbreak in the early 1900s?

Like now, tuberculosis was spread through the air when someone infected with cough or sneeze. It could also be spread while an infected person was speaking, singing, or spitting.


The bacterial disease that cannot be spread by infected people who do not have active disease is?

tuberculosis


A cow infected with active bovine tuberculosis sprayed saliva in my water and i drank the water. What chance of getting bovine tuberculosis?

It's likely that it is very minimal that you will get tuberculosis, as it is not a water-borne disease.


To catch tuberculosis a person must?

To get tuberculosis, a person must be exposed to the air exhaled by an infected person for an extended period of time in a confined area.


Strep throat and tuberculosis both are caused by contact with infected what?

Strep throat is caused by contact with infected individuals, specifically through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Tuberculosis (TB), on the other hand, is also transmitted through airborne particles when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. In both cases, close contact with someone who is infected increases the risk of transmission.


Can you get tuberculosis primarily from blood of an infected person?

yes you can. tuberculosis is a very contagious sickness that if gotten calls for 6 weeks quarantine-sgt. daniel moos


How can you get bacteria Tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. You can get infected by inhaling the bacteria or through contact with contaminated surfaces. Being in close contact with someone with active TB disease increases the risk of transmission.


How does one get a tuberculosis?

yes. secondary tuberculosis which is more common in adult is actually the reactivation of the bacterial (M. Tuberculosis) which remain dormant in the lung after the first infection that can go back years ago.