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WHAT IS TB

  
WHAT IS TB?

Tuberculosis (TB) …a common contagious lungs disease characterized by cough,  fever,  weight loss,  coughing up blood,  feeling weak, tired and chest pain…is caused by the bacterial of TB bacilli and it is spread through the air,  when people who get infected cough,  sneeze,  or spit.  But infectious people will not necessarily become sick with the disease due to the strong immune system is weakened.  Whenever people get sick with TB, if left untreated, more than 50% of its victims will be killed.  The World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global health emergency in 1993 and surveyed that 1.3 million people died from TB in 2008 among which Africa Region had the highest mortality per capital.  In addition, more people in the developed world are contracting TB because their immune systems are weakened by immunosuppressive drugs, substance abuse, or AIDS.  With the spread of AIDS, tuberculosis continues to lay waste to large population.  The emergence of drug-resistant organisms threatens to make this disease once incurable.