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TB transmition
Infection and transmission

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected.

Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. However, people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. The immune system "walls off" the TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater.

Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.
5-10% of people who are infected with TB bacilli (but who are not infected with HIV) become sick or infectious at some time during their life. People with HIV and TB infection are much more likely to develop TB.

2006-12-12 06:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by Georgie 7 · 2 0

Tb Is Transmitted By

2016-10-15 22:49:32 · answer #2 · answered by pasco 4 · 0 0

TB of the lungs - tuberculosis is transmitted via sputum and bacterial infected material like handkerchiefs , droplets in the air. The causative agent is an acid fast bacilli called moratorium tuberculosis or tubercle bacilli. This cannot be transmitted through the blood but through contact with the bacilli , usually through the air contaminated by it when a person coughs. .

2006-12-12 02:42:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1 0

It cannot be transmitted by blood transfusion. If the uterus is affected, it can be transmitted transplacentally.

2006-12-12 03:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0 0

provided that you've been married to him and he had not signed the clinical directive all JWs are meant to carry with them (forbidding entire blood transfusions), ought to you provide permission (if he replaced into subconscious). Any adult who takes a range on such concerns has to have his desires respected with techniques from the clinical career. that is in elementary words interior the case of minors that others ought to take judgements, and parental refusal must be over-ruled with techniques from the Courts. it seems that his mom ought to do each and everything plausible to stay away from him getting one, probably with techniques from affirming she knew his desires and that he does not opt for one. If not some thing is reported in writing with techniques from him, this is going to likely be a messy muddle. yet when he nonetheless needs to refuse blood even as he's not a preparation JW, you ought to be confident that the religion has an organization carry on him. he's somewhat probably to re-connect them at a later degree in his existence. that can make your position rather complicated. the perfect element you should do must be to ensure the biblical causes as to why God does not require martyrs to the blood transfusion 'reason', and tutor him from the Bible. even with each and everything, the JW stance is only theological and somewhat isn't in accordance to any clinical causes in any respect. e mail me in case you opt for information.

2016-11-30 11:41:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

yes it can i got it that way

2015-05-26 15:15:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

TRANSPLACENTAL

2006-12-15 17:21:10 · answer #7 · answered by satish k 1 · 0 0

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