How dangerous is tuberculosis? How much treatment does it involve? Exactly how serious is it?
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Its a slowly progressive infection but its treatable. Most treatments require 3 different drugs at least to start with (the bug becomes resistant if only one is used). The treatment needs to be taken for longer than most infections. (about 6 months but this varies) It becomes serious if untreated
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As a health care worker and as a nursing student, I have to prove I don't have active TB. TB is caused by bacteria and antibiotics are given. However, there are some antibiotic resistant strains of TB out there. TB is dangerous, especially to the elderly and sick.
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TB does different things to different people. it really depends on your immune systems ability to combat the disease and usually in the majority of people this is not a problem unless the person has some underlying diseases eg AIDS/HIV. Most people lead healthy lives and still carry the TB disease whilst others may have 1 or 2 complications along the way. Currently TB is treatable with a strict antibiotic dosage which the person must take in order to prevent the bacteria from developing antibiotic resistance. the thing with Tb is that it is very contagious and so your physician may want to check who is infected within a family and who is a t risk of infection. Around 2 billion people world wide are estimated to be infected with the TB pathogen (roughly 1/3 of the worlds population) so the effort to develop new drugs for the disease are perhaps at the forefront of modern medicine. So personally i wouldnt say TB is the most serious problem facing todays society, but it would have to be the most widespread disease. recently i read an article which stated that new compounds have been discovered that combat the bacterias defense mechanism- its an interesting read. il post the link for you
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