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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis or TB (Tubercles Bacillus) is an infectious disease and is caused by several strains of mycobacteria. All questions concerning signs and symptoms, causes, transmission, risk factors, treatments and medications can be found here.
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How Tuberculosis bacteria is harmful?
It is a contagious disease that kills people. Not very helpful.
Can tuberculosis transfer by french kiss.?
Yes.
Tuberculosis and spread just when a person with the disease coughs, because of the bacteria they send into the air. If they directly kiss you, especially with a French kiss, you are prone to getting the disease, too.
How many people die from tb a year?
Africa is the home to 11% of the world's population yet it carries 29% of the global tuberculosis cases and 34% of related deaths. As a disease TB is the second most deadly in the world, killing roughly 5000 people every day, which is approximately 1.8 million a year. If we let TB spread without check-ups for the next 20 years, 1 billion new infections would occur, 230 million of which would develop active TB, and 35 million would die
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
During the 19th century, up to 25 per cent of deaths in Europe were caused by this disease. The death toll began to fall as living standards improved at the start of the 20th century, and from the 1940s, effective medicines were developed.
However, there are now more people in the world with TB than there were in 1950, and 3 million individuals will die this year from this disease - mainly in less developed countries.
The disease is more common in areas of the world where poverty, malnutrition, poor general health and social disruption are present.
In the UK, too, the number of TB cases is again rising. Alcoholics, HIV-positive individuals, some recent immigrants and healthcare workers are at increased risk.
The disease is most commonly found in places such as hostels for the homeless, prisons, and centres for immigrants arriving from areas with high rates of HIV infection or inadequate health provision.
How does tuberculosis disease effect healthy cells?
tuberculosis disease affects the cells of the lungs. They infect them with the tuberculosis bacilli making the host vulnerable to other infections in the body.
How accurate is a tb skin test?
Skin allergy testing is usually done by placing a series of adhesive patches on the skin containing potential allergens, or allergy-causing substances.
How does tuberculosis reproduce?
Tuberculosis reproduces through the air and often on contact. It is spread through coughing, mucus, sneezing, and reproduces very quickly.
What is the difference between tuberculosis and cancer?
Both are harmful. TB is an infectuous disease- meaning you catch it from someone else. It is caused by a mycobacterium, and usually infects the lungs. If not treated, can be fatal, but there are drugs that can cure it.
Cancer is generally not a contagious disease, and affects many different parts of the body, depending on what type of cancer. Some cancers can be treated with good results, others are harder to treat. There are too many different forms of cancer to give a simple answer- sorry.
What types of microbes cause tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, is an infectious disease caused by infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosisbacterium.
by Joel von bibra
Tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, is an infectious disease caused by infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosisbacterium.
by Joel von bibra
Is tb communicable or non communicable disease?
TB is a communicable disease. A communicable disease is a disease that can be passed on in one way or another from a Carrier of the disease to some one else. and is usually the result of a virus or bacterial infection.
What did tuberculosis used to be called?
The name comes from the small lumps or "tubercules" that form in the lungs.
"Tubercule" is the diminuitive of the Latin word "tuber" that comes to us unchanged to describe a type of fleshy root in English. It could be translated literally as "small potato".
I don't think that you can prevent this disease so to speak, the only way would be to not get exposed to it in the first place. So if you know someone that has TB avoid contact. This is partly true, and partly false. Having been exposed to tuberculosis and having inhaled tuberculosis germs, one can prevent tuberculosis; meaning tuberculosis disease, or TB by taking preventive medicine, primarily isoniazid or INH supplemented by vitamin B6. The course of treatment is typically 6 months. As the previous person commented, if you never get exposed to TB in the first place, there would be nothing to prevent. Persons that breathe in TB germs and do not have active tuberculosis disease have latent tuberculosis infection, or LTBI. The preventive meds, or INH would be prescribed to persons with LTBI in order to prevent them from developing tuberculosis disease, or TB.
Is tuberculosis a respiratory disease?
Yes and No! TB is most common in the lungs but can affect the spine, skin, genitals, kidneys and brain
Why is the apex of the right lung more likely to have tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis seems to be more common in the right lung rather than the left lung due to the short right trachea.
Anatomically the left trachea is longer than the right one due to the position of the heart and the major vessels. As a result microbes can more easily navigate to the right lung rather than the left lung.
Why do tuberculosis patients have chest pains?
because the internal replobis is disturbed and causes the chest to feel pain
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease caused mainly by mycobacterium in humans. This disease usually attacks lungs.
There are several different medications that are used to treat primary complex. Some of these medications include Isoniazid, Rifampin, Pyrazinamide, and Ethambutol.
How was Tuberculosis cured in the civil war?
== == Pneumonia was a particularly unpleasant disease to catch during this time, as doctors were unsure how to treat it. Some patients were "bled," meaning that doctors would open one of their veins in an effort to cleanse the body of diseased blood. This cure often proved fatal. Alcohol, opium and quinine were also popular treatments.
Also, since water was limited and reserved for the war effort, doctors rarely washed their hands while tending to the ill. This, combined with the close quarters soldiers lived in, allowed pneumonia to spread rapidly through a unit.
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Pneumonia was a major cause of suffering and death during the Civil War. Soldiers sometimes went days or even weeks without seeing battle, but disease was ever-present within their camps. The winter months were a particularly deadly time in the North, when pneumonia struck down many of the exhausted, under-fed soldiers. Those already ill or hurt, as well as prisoners, were particularly at risk. Unsanitary conditions inside the soldiers' camps also led to wide-spread disease. Because many of the soldiers were also very young, lack of immunity was also a factor. At this time, doctors in the United States were not knowledgeable regarding what caused the spread of diseases like pneumonia, though this knowledge was common in Europe. This was one reason why outbreaks proved so fatal. One study claims that during a 19 month period during the early 1860s, more than 17 percent of the Confederate army came down with pneumonia. Of these afflicted, one out of every six eventually succumbed to the disease and died. Pneumonia was the third most fatal disease among Civil War soldiers, following typhoid and dysentery. The number of men who died from diseases like pneumonia was double that of the number of men who died from gunshot wounds. Pneumonia often began as an innocuous-seeming cold. But exposure to the elements could easily turn a cold into full-blown pneumonia. Pneumonia is basically a lung infection that can be present in either or both lungs. Coughing (with or without blood and mucus), pain in the shoulder and chest, fever and difficulty breathing were all symptoms of pneumonia that an ill Civil War soldier may have experienced. Pneumonia was a particularly unpleasant disease to catch during this time, as doctors were unsure how to treat it. Some patients were "bled," meaning that doctors would open one of their veins in an effort to cleanse the body of diseased blood. This cure often proved fatal. Alcohol, opium and quinine were also popular treatments.
Also, since water was limited and reserved for the war effort, doctors rarely washed their hands while tending to the ill. This, combined with the close quarters soldiers lived in, allowed pneumonia to spread rapidly through a unit. In general, the Confederacy suffered more than the Union as a result of disease and poor medical treatment. By 1865, the Union had triple the amount of medical officers that the Confederacy did. Some approximate that nearly 2 out of every 3 Confederate deaths were due to diseases like pneumonia, while the Union soldiers fared a bit better, with only 3 out of every 5 deaths attributed to disease . Some speculate that this is one of several reasons why the Union was able to win the Civil War.
The challenges of the Civil War led to many medical advances. As a result of the deadly diseases that claimed so many soldiers, doctors gained a better grasp of the relationship between sanitary conditions, diet, and illness.
Miitchell Ososke
== == == == OK! I found this from http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/pneumonia-treatment-overview
It is about present ways of treament but it may work the same...
Your doctor will choose your antibiotic based on a number of things, including your age, your symptoms and how severe they are, and whether you need to go to the hospital. Although experts differ on their antibiotic recommendations, the first antibiotic used usually is one that works against a wide range of bacteria (broad-spectrum antibiotic). All antibiotics used have a high cure rate for pneumonia.
I hope this help and i wasn't to late!
Bon Chance!
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