Infectious Diseases - 7 Answers
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omg Yes!!!!
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Yes tuberculosis spread with droplets. Get treated as if you have TB then you are compromising others around you. Spartan
3 :
only the kiss of death . It happends to be a very contagious disease,take some silver water and get alot of sun
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kissing a tubrculous patient can only contaminate you if he is known to have an open pulmonary TB shedded in his sputum otherwise if not or if he is under treatment , don`t worry it`s ok
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A lot depends on the person who has it. Is it active or dormant? If it is active, where it is at in the body? If it is active and in the lungs it is HIGHLY contagious and ANY ONE who comes in contact with the person can be infected as it is spread through the air that the person shares with others. I really think that if this was the case that the doctor and Health Dept. ( who is required to be notified by the doctor) would take measures to keep the person isolated from the public. My husband's was in his kidney so therefore he wasn't contagious. He had tested positive all his life but it wasn't active but lay dormant. When he was diagnosed, it had became active and he began to pass blood in his urine. He contacted it from his mother. His mother had it in her lung when she had been pregnant with him. When he was an infant she was hospitalized for years and had her lung removed. I don't think they take such drastric measures today as the medical field has continued to find new and improved treatments.
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Hmmm... I'm not sure exactly what you are getting at. Are you asking: 1) If you have TB, would it be bad to kiss someone else 2) If someone else has TB, would it be bad to kiss them 3) Some other combo of kissing Also, you don't differentiate if the kisser/ kiss-ee has latent tuberculosis infection, active tuberculosis, or has been treated in the past for tuberculosis. Now, many people (15 million, to be exact) in the US are "infected" with TB. However, this number comes with a variety of levels of infectivity. If someone has been exposed to TB (ie. breathes a few of the bacteria in) and is able to control the infection and wall off those bacteria in their lung, they are considered "latently infected". They have a postive skin test for TB (called a PPD). They have a 10% life-time risk of those pesky bacteria breaking free in the lungs to wreak havoc and cause illness. However, while those bacteria are walled-off, this person cannot transmit tuberculosis, regardless of kissing. If this person has "active TB", this means that those bacteria are dividing and growing in the lung tissue, causing symptoms of fever, chills, weight loss, and cough. With each cough, thousands of those bacteria are expelled to hang in the air to breathed in by a new host. If you are within kissing range of this person, you are, too, at risk of breathing the organism in. This may result in either "latent" (non-infectious) or "active" TB. Also, if a person has active TB and is being treated (usually by the health department), they are infectious for varying amounts of time- give or take 2 months on average. I would avoid being in kissing range. In addition, if they are kissing, they do not have on their mask and every cough expells those bacteria into your airspace. Long story short- I am not sure who in the scenario has TB and what flavor of TB it is, but if you or someone you know has been told that they have "active" TB, don't start a make-out marathon. Also, visit your physician for a skin test and an X-ray.
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Yes,unfortunately Mycobacterium tuberculosis(agent of tuberculosis) is a bacteria which one of it is enough for transmitted from infected person to others(infectious dose=1) and because bacteria is avilable in the airways of infected person(as a result of continious coughing),it can be transmitted by kissing and if your afraid about this subject you can take an tuberculin test
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