2006-09-27 08:50:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
If you get treatment, you probably won't die from TB.
And, with most forms of the disease, it will take a long time to kill you even without treatment.
However, there's a new strain of "super" TB that can kill people in a month or so without treatment.
2006-09-27 08:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by johntadams3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have Tb or do you just have the germ.?you do not have to die from it as there are meds you can take.my grandaughter and i had the test and it came up positive but then you have toy have a chest x-ray which was neg. they wanted to put her on meds for 9 months but come to find out the nurse had mesured the test on her arm wrong so she does not have to do the med . so be sure that if the test on your arm come up into a large hard bump and measues more than 7 milimeters.
2006-09-27 16:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by greeneyes634970 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you seek treatment, you should not die from TB. Of course, progression of disease relates also to other factors (e.g., co-infection with HIV, multidrug resistant TB, etc). As well, there are different types of TB (e.g., pulmonary, non- pulmonary, latent, active, etc). More information is required.
2006-09-27 16:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by Queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TB is not always a terminal illness these days. It can also arrest itself. My mother had TB as a child and it arrested itself and now all she has is scar tissue on her lung.
2006-09-27 15:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by smartypants909 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two days
2006-09-27 16:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by john . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TB? as in tuberculosis? i thought they could cure that these days (as far as not dieing) .. you just can't work with kids, that type of thing...
2006-09-27 15:54:43 · answer #6 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is NOT necessarily fatal.
2006-09-27 15:53:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋