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What percent of the population is infected with tuberculosis?
In the United States, 0.0042% of the population has tuberculosis.
Who does tuberculosis harm most?
The classic organ affected by tuberculosis is the lung. Many other organs may be infected.
Which disease has infected one third of the world's population?
Tuberculosis
Strep throat and tuberculosis both are caused by contact with infected?
These illnesses are spread by contact with infected mucus.
What part of the body most often becomes infected with tuberculosis?
your lungs
Was there a tuberculosis outbreak in the early 1900s?
Like now, tuberculosis was spread through the air when someone infected with cough or sneeze. It could also be spread while an infected person was speaking, singing, or spitting.
The bacterial disease that cannot be spread by infected people who do not have active disease is?
tuberculosis
A cow infected with active bovine tuberculosis sprayed saliva in my water and i drank the water. What chance of getting bovine tuberculosis?
It's likely that it is very minimal that you will get tuberculosis, as it is not a water-borne disease.
To catch tuberculosis a person must?
To get tuberculosis, a person must be exposed to the air exhaled by an infected person for an extended period of time in a confined area.
Can you get tuberculosis primarily from blood of an infected person?
yes you can. tuberculosis is a very contagious sickness that if gotten calls for 6 weeks quarantine-sgt. daniel moos
How does one get a tuberculosis?
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.
Why is the number of cases of TB increasing?
Tuberculosis is on the increase due to certain factors: An increase in HIV, makes the person susceptible to diseases especially to TB; people living in poor sanitation areas are infected by TB, as it thrives most in these areas; the most populated areas is where this disease is most prevalent. These factors help in the spread of TB.
