tuberculosis symptoms
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I'm not sure, but if you think you have been exposed, get to the doctors right away! It's pretty serious as you can also be spreading TB to others. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the sooner you are treated the better off you will be. But again, go to the doctors!!
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It can take from 2-3 days or a week. Most of the time when people are first infected with TB, the disease is so mild that they don't even know they have it. People with latent TB don't have symptoms unless the disease becomes active. Symptoms of active TB may include: A cough that brings up thick, cloudy, and sometimes bloody mucus from the lungs (called sputum) for more than 2 weeks. Tiredness and weight loss. Night sweats and a fever. A rapid heartbeat. Swelling in the neck (when lymph nodes in the neck are infected). Shortness of breath and chest pain (in rare cases
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