Saturday, June 28, 2008

If someone has Tuberculosis (TB) in a house will it affect it


If someone has Tuberculosis (TB) in a house will it affect it?
I mean if someone has TB in your house and if they leave, will the infection still be there? Will it be possible to get it if you stay in the house? And if it is how do you remove it? Do you change the carpet? ect. How do you clean your house from it?
Infectious Diseases - 4 Answers
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1 :
yea TB is kinda like the flu in the fact that if someone with TB touches a phone then someone can get TB if they touch it too. i would suggest not going in the house for a while until its completely cleaned.
2 :
of course it is contagious
3 :
You cannot get TB from someone’s clothes, drinking glass, eating utensils, cell phone, handshake, toilet, or other surfaces where a TB patient has been. TB is most commonly spread from a person with active TB in their lungs. When someone with active TB disease in their lungs or throat coughs, sings or speaks, TB bacteria may be released into the air. TB is not spread in food and cannot be killed by air fresheners. TB does not live very long outside of the body. You do not get TB from the environment (such as desk tops). http://www.health.ri.gov/disease/communicable/tb/faq-centralfalls.php
4 :
Tuberculosis is spread through the air, when people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit. When people suffering from active pulmonary TB cough, sneeze, speak, or spit, they expel infectious aerosol droplets 0.5 to 5 µm in diameter. A single sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets. Each one of these droplets may transmit the disease, since the infectious dose of tuberculosis is very low and the inhalation of just a single bacterium can cause a new infection



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