Tuberculosis

emos that is totally incorrect including for the people who are learning about this, people who are most at risk are the people in these contents .Asia, Africa and south amercia. it is very rare everywhere else. And other people who at most risk are people who have a parent sister or brother that has leprosy. It is transmited by sneezing or coughing droplets. hope this was any help

Tuberculosis spread much more widely in Europe when the industrial revolution began in the late nineteenth century. The disease became widespread somewhat later in the United States, because the movement of the population to large cities made overcrowded housing so common. When streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against M. tuberculosis, was discovered in the early 1940s, the infection began to come under control. Although other more effective anti-tuberculosis drugs were developed in the following decades, the number of cases of TB in the United States began to rise again in the mid-1980s. This upsurge was in part again a result of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in the poor areas of large cities, prisons, and homeless shelters. Infected visitors and immigrants to the United States also contributed to the resurgence of TB. An additional factor is the http://www.answers.com/topic/aids epidemic. AIDS patients are much more likely to develop tuberculosis because of their weakened immune systems. There still are an estimated 8 to 10 million new cases of TB each year worldwide, causing roughly 3 million deaths.

someone could get it through air, by someone coughing or sneezing and then it affecting your lungs and making you cough and get a very high fever.

Also, TB is generally seen in community housing, such as Nursing Homes, prisons and so forth. It is an airborn disease, and it is on the rise. Have a PPD 2 step done by your doctor to rule out having this deadly disease.

Both are diseases caused by bacteria that attack the throat and lungs of the human body.

It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air.

TB is found in the lungs. However, it only kills around 80% of carriers. There have been many people who live with TB and their body is able to prevent it from going too far. TB is carried by many people and it is very simple to pick up. It can be picked up any where on the planet, it is an air born disease. This means someone who has tuberculosis will be coughing a lot and the phlegm that is propelled through the air by the cough carries the disease and will spread when someone else comes into contact with the diseased spittle.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs.

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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!

Yes, it is. Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious, airborne disease that typically affects the lungs. TB is caused by a bacterium. If the infection is not treated quickly, the bacteria can travel through the bloodstream to infect other organs and tissues.

Sometimes, the bacteria will travel to the meninges, which are the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Infected meninges can result in a life-threatening condition known as meningeal tuberculosis. Meningeal tuberculosis is also known as tubercular meningitis or TB meningitis.

parasitic fungi are fungi that feed on a living host. fungal pneumonia is most commonly seen in immunosuppressed individuals.

tuberculosis is caused by mycobacterium not fungus.

If you have active TB disease, your doctor will give you several antibiotics to treat the infection and to help prevent resistant bacteria from emerging in your body. The most common regimen involves taking a combination of INH, Priftin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (Myambutol) for three months, followed by INH and Priftin to complete six to 12 months. If your TB is inactive an antibiotic called INHis often prescribed to help prevent the dormant infection from becoming active.Your doctor will likely have you take a daily dose of INH for nine months and evaluate you regularly to ensure that you're tolerating the drug without major side effects.

tuberculosis can be life threatening but yet rare of it to ask a doctor or vaccine doctor how serious it can be.

You may not notice any symptoms of illness until the disease is quite advanced. Symptoms would be loss of weight, loss of energy, poor appetite, fever, a productive cough, and night sweats. Even with these symptoms, people will blame another disease and realise the truth even later.

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! =)

ZINSSER, Hans (1878-1940), American bacteriologist noted for his work in combating typhus fever, and for a popular book about typhus, Rats, Lice and History (1935). Zinsser was born in New York City and educated in medicine at Columbia University. He was professor of bacteriology at Stanford University (1911), at Columbia University (1913), and at Harvard University Medical School (1923-40). A pioneer in the science of immunology, Zinsser did extensive research on cholera and bacteriological diseases. He isolated the microorganism that causes one form of typhus, and in 1940, with his associates at Harvard, he devised a method for producing a typhus vaccine in large quantities. His autobiography, As I Remember Him, was published in 1940.

TB vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine (LAV). This type of vaccine prepared from living micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria currently available) that have been weakened under laboratory conditions.
LAV vaccines will replicate in a vaccinated individual and produce an immune response but usually cause a mild or no disease.

Improper insertion of airway tubing or improper uses of the nebulizer or the plastic devices used to measure oxygen being blown into it. Trust me, this is an extremely rare occurrence. There is another matter to consider. You can infect another person when you have bacterial pneumonia....that is a tragic accident and injury to another person. That is not true with viral pneumonia.

Yes, it is usually treated aggressively with multiple antibiotics due to the high resistance tuberculosis has developed to multiple antibiotics.

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Saprophytic mycobacteria are acid fast and do not cause serious disease.

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.

To answer the question, once the bacteria begin to multiply, it generally takes 2 to 12 weeks to either develop symptoms of TB or to show a positive PPD skin test. A latent infection can stay dormant in your lungs for years or decades, with no sign but a positive skin test, or it could convert to an active infection at any point. However, once it becomes known that you have a TB infection, active or inactive, it can be treated and eradicated with antibiotics. If successfully treated, the bacteria are not going to stay in you for the rest of your life; they will die. Since the skin test looks for the immune reaction to the bacteria, not the bacteria itself, the skin test will remain positive throughout your lifetime, even if the infection is completely cured.

Tuberculosis (Known years ago as consumption) almost always affects the lungs.

You can get tuberculosis when somebody, untreated, has the disease. If they cough, sneeze, or spit, the TB germs can get flung into the air. People who aren't vaccinated can end up with the disease if they don't get treated. But, TB isn't easy to catch.