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 Tuberculosis is an air-bone disease that can spread
when someone coughs, sneezes, or when
somebody literally talks. It usually affects the
lungs but can be present anywhere in the body.
Each year 2 billion people or one third the earths
population dies from tuberculosis.Tuberculosis
can increase the infection if there is factors like
poor air circulation or lack of fresh air breathing.
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Diagram showing worldwide levels of infection of TB and HIV

 How Does Tuberculosis
 There are two possible ways Develop?
a
person can become sick with
TB disease:
 The first applies to a person
who may have had been
infected with TB but is perfectly
healthy. The person can get
infected again if they have a
another disease such as HIV or
cancer or they may get infected
if they use drugs/alcohol.
 The other way it TB can
develop, happens much
more quickly. Sometimes
when a person first
breathes in the TB germs,
the body is unable to
protect itself against the
disease. The germs then
develop into active TB
disease within weeks.
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The symptoms for tuberculosis are:
(These symptoms are ranged from mild to dangerous)
 feeling weak or sick all the time
 coughs that will not go away
 weight loss/loss of appetite
 fever/night sweats
 chest pain
 coughing up blood
Who Gets Tuberculosis?
Anyone can get tuberculosis. Some people are at higher
risks than others. The people who have more of a chance
getting TB are:
 People who share same breathing space
 Poor people/homeless people
 Prisoners
 Alcoholics or Drug users
 People with medical conditions (cancer, diabetes)
 Specially people with aids
 Is Tuberculosis Curable?

Fifty years ago, there was no cure or drugs for

tuberculosis. If someone is given the wrong
treatment, it would have been better if they
weren’t given a treatment at all. When
people get the wrong treatment, they wont
be able to use any drugs at all for the
disease. The treatment for tuberculosis is
complex and is becoming even more
complex because of HIV infection.
 Primary tuberculosis
pneumonia
 This is an uncommon type of TB as
pneumonia is infectious. People who have
it, have high fevers and productive coughs.
It occurs most often in extremely young
children and the elderly. This type is also
found in HIV and Aids infected people.
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This is a diagram of the
lungs getting infected by
tuberculosis.

This is a diagram of
bacteria that is getting
Spread in the immune system
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In some cases, TB might spread though

a chain reaction. This picture is showing
that TB is infecting through chain reaction

Another picture were the cells

Are infecting the lungs
 The Three Stages
 There are three stages in the disease of tuberculosis. These
three stages are identified from mild to extreme danger
which is death. The first mild stage can get cured easily as
long as the patient gets medication on time and takes good
care. The second stage is more dangerous and the patient
has to be really careful and that is were the symptoms
should be considered. The third stage is extremely
dangerous and there is no cure which means death. The
third stage is the stage were nothing should go wrong and
the patient will slowly begin to vomit blood and
eventually die.
Who Discovered Tuberculosis?
 In1882, Robert Koch discovered TB and soon he
found out that it was caused by a microorganism
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. After discovering that
this disease was infectious, he started to consider
treatments. Many treatments were tried but none were
discovered until the year of 1943 were the activity of
streptomycin was discovered.
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This topic is not very common amongst us because

we might not have experienced it personally or
might not know people infected with this disease
although it is very common worldwide. One third
of the earths population is infected with
tuberculosis (including minor infections) so I
think that its important to learn about a common
disease that’s spreading rapidly amongst us..
 Bibliography
 http://www.lungusa.org/diseases/lungtb.html#do
 http://www.who.int/gtb/
 My mother knows a lot of things about
tuberculosis so she told me
 http://www.ask.com.Tuberculosis+%28TB
%29&dm=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elungusa
http://www.priory.com/cmol/TBWorld1.htm
(graph directly copied)