What is TB? And how can I get some?

Answer 1

Tuburculosis is a lung/respritory disease. People used to die of it or at least be sent away to some dry arid part of the desert to recuperated from it. They got meds now that stop you from being contagious and make you well.

Answer 2

TB is short for tuberculosis, an infectious disease that requires long treatment to cure it or bring it under control. You do not want it in reality because it can result in you being quarantined and forbidden to travel. Recently, a traveler with a rare strain of TB travelled to Europe against doctor's orders and he flew there.All the people who sat in the same area with him on the aircraft have to be contacted and tested. Now, if you still want it, travel and sit next to someone with a serious cough, maybe someone spitting blood etc.

Answer 3

Tuberculosis ..... and you wouldn't want to 'get some'...

Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease that is caused by mycobacteria, primarily Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis most commonly affects the lungs (as pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, the lymphatic system, the circulatory system, the genitourinary system, bones, joints and even the skin. Other mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium africanum, Mycobacterium canetti and Mycobacterium microti can also cause tuberculosis, but these species do not usually infect healthy adults.

Over one-third of the world's population now has the TB bacterium in their bodies and new infections are occurring at a rate of one per second. Not everyone who is infected develops the disease and asymptomatic latent TB infection is most common. However, one in ten latent infections will progress to active TB disease which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims. In 2004, 14.6 million people had active TB and there were 8.9 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths, mostly in developing countries. A rising number of people in the developed world contract tuberculosis because their immune systems are compromised by immunosuppressive drugs, substance abuse or HIV/AIDS.

The rise in HIV infection levels and the neglect of TB control programs have enabled a resurgence of tuberculosis. Drug-resistant strains of TB have emerged and are spreading (in 2000–2004, 20% of cases were resistant to standard treatments and 2% were also resistant to second-line drugs). TB incidence varies widely, even in neighboring countries, and this appears to be caused by differences in healthcare. The World Health Organization declared TB a global health emergency in 1993, and the Stop TB Partnership proposed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis which aims to save 14 million lives between 2006 and 2015.

In the past, tuberculosis was called consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting. Other names included phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis; scrofula (in adults), affecting the lymphatic system and resulting in swollen neck glands; tabes mesenterica, TB of the abdomen and lupus vulgaris, TB of the skin; wasting disease; white plague, because sufferers appear markedly pale; king's evil, because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula; and Pott's disease, or Gibbus of the spine and joints. Miliary TB is an archaic term that is still occasionally used, and is when the infection invades the circulatory system resulting in x-ray lesions with the appearance of millet seeds. This form of TB is now more commonly named disseminated TB.

In the patients where TB becomes an active disease, 75% of these cases affect the lungs, where the disease is called pulmonary TB. Symptoms include a productive, prolonged cough of more than three weeks duration, chest pain and coughing up blood. Systemic symptoms include fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss and paling, and those afflicted are often easily fatigued.

When the infection spreads out of the lungs, extrapulmonary sites include the pleura, central nervous system in meningitis, lymphatic system in scrofula of the neck, genitourinary system in urogenital tuberculosis, and bones and joints in Pott's disease of the spine. An especially serious form is disseminated, or miliary tuberculosis. Extrapulmonary forms are more common in immunosuppressed persons and in young children. Infectious pulmonary TB may co-exist with extrapulmonary TB, which is not contagious.

Answer 4

TB is a lung disease. Tuberculosis, And believe me, you dont want it,

Answer 5

TB or not TB. That is the question.

Answer 6

Tuberculosis, it is an infectious lung disease, you can get it free from an infected person.

Answer 7

It is Tuberculosis, It's an airborn disease. Why would you want this?

Answer 8

Why would you want to get some? Do you plan to be a terrorist?

Answer 9

It's a disease. And you definitely don't want it!

Answer 10

U R A moron.