k we have to do this science project and i have to explain what tuberculosis is but what i don't get about is that like does it like eat away at your lungs of what and why do you cough up blood?????!???? and i need a really good answer thats actually makes sense and everybody can understand!!!!
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you cough up blood because its 'eating' away at your lungs. you might be better posting this in the medicine section, or maybe a diseases section, since it is a disease.
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Tuberculosis is a chronic lung disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculi. This bacterium infects lung cells & lives inside them. However, the majority of the lung damage is not caused by the bacteria. Rather, the damage is caused by the immune system response. The immune cells invade the lungs, causing swelling and they produce chemicals that stress out in the lung tissue. The tissue becomes damaged to the extent that it bleeds
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