what causes it and how can it cured
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Ohh Finally a good one. M.tuberculosis is is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected. Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. But people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. The immune system "walls off" the TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater. It has also become resitent to the main drug used to treat it in almost all countries. However drugs arent so much responsible ans poorly superviesd, administered or monitored conditions. you can find out much more on the page in "references" It may also be intereting to note that the genome sequence for this particular disease has been mapped. this may help drastically in developing a more permanent solution.
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Sounds bad. Probably from getting sneezed on. Nothing a good diet and rest won't cure!
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the chap who gives you TB(tuberculosis)
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mycobacterium tuberculosis is the microorganism causing the disease called tuberculosis. antitubercular drugs include isoniazid, ethambutol and rifampicin
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