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Symptoms/Treatment

When tuberculosis becomes active, 75% of cases involve infection in the lungs which is called (Pulmonary TB). The symptoms include pain in the chest, coughing up blood or sputum, productive cough that last more than three weeks. The affecting symptoms include fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, pallor, and fatigue. The other 25% of active cases the infection moves from the lungs, causing other kinds of TB. The treatment for TB uses antibiotics to kill the bacteria. Effective TB treatment is difficult due to the unusual structure and the chemical compsotiton. There is two antibiotics that are used isoniazid and rifamicin. TB requires much longer periods of treatment around 6 to 24 months to entirely eleiminate the mycobacteria from the body.Drug-resistnat tuberculosisi is transsmitted in the same way as regular TB.

Description/Cause of TB

 

There is four different strains of Tuberculosis. Primary TB Pneumonia, Renal TB, TB Meningitis, TB Peritonitis. A infectious agent causes TB it is caused by a bacterium. People catch it by breathing in air exhaled by someone with an active case of TB. It's transmitted through the air and from person to person. It's found in the lungs because that's where it starts and works its ways to other parts of the body TB is infectious disease on humans and animals caused by the Tubercle Bacillus. And characterized by small rounded swelling  on the lungs and other tissues of the body, often developing long after the initial infection. Tuberculosis is also know as white plague, consumption, phthisis, and Pott's disease.

History

TB has been around since at least the Ice Age. It exist in every region of the world. Evidence of the disease has even been found in the spinal tissue of some Egyptian mummies. But there was never a epidemic like the one of the late nineteenth century. By the mid-1800s industrialization has sent a lot of people to cities across Europe and North America in search of work. Conditions in the cities became very crowded and the inhabitants suffered from poor nutrition, lack of hygiene, and overworked. It was the perfect scenario for the disease to spread.

Tuberculosis- Most Important Facts

1. TB has caused about nearly 2 million deaths.
2. TB is curable but kills 5000 people everyday.
3. TB is a disease of poverty.
4. TB affects the most needy, such as the poor.
5. Tb is a leading killer among HIV infected people with a weak immune system.
6. Global TB incidence is still growing by 1% every year because of the rapid increase in Africa.
7. TB is contagious and spreads through the air.
8.  If TB is not treated each person with TB infects 10 to 15 people.
9. TB is a worldwide pandemic.
10. Almost 9 million new TB cases occurred in 2004 80% of them in 22 countries.