What are the odds of surviving? and if somebody carries the disease, can it resurface later on through smoking or anything else? Thanks
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With regular tuberculosis, you have an excellent chance of surviving. Most depends on taking your medications. I think after you are cured, compared to someone who has never had the disease, your chance of getting it again would be slightly increased. If you have HIV your chances would be significantly higher. Persons with latent TB have a 5% to 10% lifetime risk of developing active TB, half of which is in the first year after becoming infected. Persons with HIV infection and LTB have up to a 7% per year chance of developing active TB http://www.metrokc.gov/health/tb/tbtargeted.htm The rare Miliary Tuberculosis (only 1% of TB cases) with early and appropriate treatment, the mortality rate is reduced to less than 10%. The earlier the diagnosis, the better the likelihood of a positive outcome. Early treatment for suspected TB has shown to improve outcome. Untreated Miliary TB has a close to 100% mortality rate. http://www.emedicine.com/med/TOPIC1476.HTM
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TUBERCULOSIS PROGNOSIS The prognosis for recovery from TB is good for most patients. The key to success is early diagnosis of the disease followed by a careful program of medication. The most serious form of tuberculosis, miliary tuberculosis, is still fatal in many cases, but it is seldom seen in developed countries today
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