Tuberculosis

Yes, one can contract TB from inhaling the infected particles from someone who has TB, so therefore kissing someone with TB will definitely give you the disease.

People who have died from pneumonia:

Albert Schweitzer, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, Aristotle Onassis, Armand Cardinal de Richelieu, Benjamin Franklin, Boris Karloff, Charlemagne, Charles H. Mayo, Conrad Hilton, "Duke" Ellington, Eli Lilly, Enrico Caruso, Eugene O'Neill, Florence Ziegfeld, Franz Liszt, Geronimo "Groucho" Marx, U.S. President Herbert Hoover, Ivan Pavlov, John Ringling, Leo Tolstoy, Louis C. Tiffany, Mario Lanza, Otto von Bismarck, Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, René Descartes, Robert E. Lee, Texas President Sam Houston, Simon Guggenheim, Sinclair Lewis, Sir Francis Bacon, Stonewall Jackson, Tsar Nicholas I, Victor Hugo, U.S. President William Henry Harrison, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Wordsworth

People who have died from tuberculosis:

Amadeo Modigliani, Cardinal Richelieu, Caroline Harrison, C. P. E. Bach, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Monroe, Emily Bronte, Franz Kafka, Frédéric Chopin, George Orwell, Hannah Van Buren, Henry Clay, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Pierce, John Keats, Karl Marx, King Tutankhamen of Egypt, Martha Jefferson, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Simon Bolivar, Vivian Leigh, Walt Whitman

People who have died from syphilis:

Al Capone, Erasmus, Ferdinand Magellan, Florence Nightingale, Giovanni Casanova, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan the Terrible, John Keats, King Henry VIII of England, Lord Randolph Churchill, Ludwig van Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh

People who have died from malaria:

Alexander the Great, Martha Washington, Oliver Cromwell, Pope Innocent III, Pope Leo X

Sickle cell is an inherited blood disorder. It is a illness that you are born with.

It is a bacterial illness, contracted by consuming food or water infected with human faeces containing the bacterium Salmonella thyphi.

Tuberculosis is named for the bacterium that causes it, "mycobacterium tuberculosis", which was first "seen" by Robert Koch, a German physician. Tuberculosis used to be called "consumption".

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a closely related family of Mycobacterium, usually M. bovis or M. tuberculosis. TB is spread through both unpasteurized milk and through aerosolized droplets expelled from the lungs of infected individuals, human and animal. Most developed countries have a TB eradication program in place, but there are multiple wildlife reservoirs (white-tailed deer in the US, badgers in the UK) that are significantly hindering progress towards total eradication.

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.

No TB is not genetically transmitted. TB is transmitted through airborne pathogens that are breathed in to the lungs.

the most common strain that causes tuberculosis in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. there are also other strains, but in terms of incidence, they do not cause much damage in humans. examples of this is Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium africanum. these strains are more common in animals.

SDS Tuberculosis Sanatorium was created in 1948.

about 250 million people died of tuberculosis. - - - 100 million people died of TB throughout all of the 1900s, according to a reference cited in Wikipedia. But the current fatality rate is much higher, with about 2 million dying every year, worldwide, from TB.

Primary complex is another name for tuberculosis (TB). Drugs can treat this condition, some of those are: isoniazid (Laniazid, Nydrazid), rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane), pyrazinamide (pms-Pyrazinamide, Tebrazid) and ethambutol (Myambutol) - taken over at least a six month period.

There are multiple reasons:

-TB is highly contagious and can be spread from the patient to the healthcare worker and from the healthcare work to other patients.

-It is spread through the air as small particles.

-TB treatment MUST be completed fully. In other words, the medication used to treat TB has become less effective in treating the pathogen because patients are not taking the medication properly. This has lead to highly resistant strains of TB.

-Highly resistant strains pose a higher risk for infecting healthcare works and other patients.

*Patients should take medication the same time every day and for the full amount of time it is prescribed.

TB is an ancient infectious disease that has been around for over 30, 000 years. It is Caused by infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and in most cases affects the lungs. It is found worldwide. The bacilli spores are transmitted through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes, but you have to spend quite a long time with an infected person in order to catch TB. It cannot be transmitted by objects such as bed linen or clothes, although it is possible to contract TB by drinking unpasteurised milk products from an infected cow.

Written by Anisa Zulfqar

The organ that is damaged if a person has Tuberculosis (TB) is the lungs.

It depend on the severity of the disease. In most cases it can be healed completely. But in severe ones, the damage is permanent and nothing can be done to remove it. For instance, the pulmonary tuberculosis can be healed, but if it has developed fibrosis of the pulmonary organ, it cannot be undone. For more information you can read <a href="http://tuberculosissymptom.org">Tuberculosis symptoms</a>.

The cause of tuberculosis is the infectious agent called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is an aerobic bacterium that does need oxygen or air to survive.

Yes. Robert Koch discover the Infection so Tuberculosis was also called Koch's Infection.

Chlorine kills almost all types of bacteria and viruses, when given a time of hour or two. It find it difficult to kill the ova and cysts. But you can filter the water to remove the ova and cysts.

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.

Yes, it is transmittable. A test known as a PPD, or Mantoux, can detect the presence of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium. Tuberculosis is found worldwide. Tuberculosis is spread from person to person through the air. People with TB disease of the lung spray the bacteria into the air when they cough, sneeze, talk, or laugh. People nearby can breathe in the bacteria and become infected. To become infected, a person usually needs to be exposed for a long time to air containing many TB bacteria. TB infection is diagnosed by a skin test. A small needle is used to put some fluid, called tuberculin, under the skin on the inside of the arm. After 2 to 3 days, the amount of skin swelling around the test area is measured. A positive reaction usually means that the person has TB infection. TB disease is diagnosed by a chest x-ray or a test of a sputum sample.

TB infection and disease are very common worldwide. About 8 million new cases of TB disease occur each year in the world, and approximately 22,000 cases are reported each year in the United States. Also, 10 million to 15 million people in the United States are infected with TB and could develop TB disease in the future. With the discovery of anti-TB drugs in the 1940s, U.S. cases began to decrease for most of the 20th century. However, between 1985 and 1992, TB cases increased. This resurgence of TB prompted the mobilization of improved efforts to prevent and control TB. As a result, cases have dropped each year since 1993.

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