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Fast Facts
- Also known as TB, "Consumption"
- 1/3 of world's population carries the bacteriumWorld Health Organization: Tuberculosis Fact Sheet
- Every second, someone is infectedWorld Health Organization: Tuberculosis Fact Sheet
- 5-10% of people infected demonstrate symptomsWorld Health Organization: Tuberculosis Fact Sheet
- Symptoms: coughing, weight loss, fever, night sweats
- Cause discovered by Robert KochNobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905
- Can be deadly
- Latent form most common
- XDR TB (extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis) develops if treatments are not conducted properly
- On March 10, 2009, the CDC confirmed that a man traveling from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit, Michigan was infected with TuberculosisThe Detroit News: 17 fliers sought as man with TB held (March 16, 2009)
- Although the risk is considered low, the CDC requires testing for those sitting in the same row as the infected man, as well as those sitting two rows ahead and two rows behindThe Detroit News: 17 fliers sought as man with TB held (March 16, 2009)
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Transmission
When a person suffering from tuberculosis coughs or sneezes, they send infectious aerosol droplets out into the air. If another person inhales even one of these infected droplets, they can contract the disease. At particular risk are children, those suffering from compromised immune systems, and anyone exposed to infected persons on an ongoing basis, such as health care workers. -
Famous Sufferers
- Doc Holliday
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Frederic Chopin
- John Keats
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Tuberculosis in Culture
Owing to its highly infectious and fatal nature, the disease has inspired a variety of folk explanations, remedies and treatments throughout human history. In the 18th century, dying of tuberculosis was widely considered to be "romantic," a cleansing of the soul that led to a burst of creative inspiration and a general feeling of euphoria. -
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Dr. Donald Low claims vit D only treats tuberculosis. Well Dr Low, how do you discount the proof that vit D DOES prevent cold/flu? Muppet
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OSDD Launches the "Connect to Decode" 2010 Initiative to re-annotate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. Open... http://ff.im/ba892
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@jacksbileduct You take tuberculosis. My smoking doesn't go over at all.
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Going to look for some boots. I'm feeling much better today. Turns out I never had tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia, and intestinal infectious diseases remain the leading underlying causes of death in South Africa.
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