Sunday, August 8, 2010

what kind of treatment is there for tuberculosis

what kind of treatment is there for tuberculosis?
other than the big pills ur doc gives what other treatment is there
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The only treatment for TB are antibiotics, which you will have to visit a doctor to get (there are several different types used to treat TB). If treated early enough then the prospects of recovery are very good.
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Agreed, the only treatment with any scientific basis is a regimen of very potent antibiotics, often intravenously, with people often being on the regimen for years. If you like, go onto www.pubmed.gov and do a search for tuberculosis to see what the preeminent treatments are, it's the national library of medicine's database of most of the academic research to date on everything

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

If tuberculosis co-evolved with humans, why didn't they co-evolve opposable thumbs

If tuberculosis co-evolved with humans, why didn't they co-evolve opposable thumbs?

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Tuberculosis is actually made of long thin nailless thumbs it is working on evolving a body to attach to.
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we do have opposable thumbs ....dum dum.
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I think we both need more drugs to resolve this.
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It was not evolutionarily beneficial for tuberculosis to make tools or eat bananas. We could do that for them.
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Why would bacteria need thumbs. They wouldn't use them. They do perfectly fine without them. (though, i think lethal bacteria are stupid, they should just not harm the host body, like tapeworm, they are better for everyone, except the host, though they do lose weight.)
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Because it's the watermelon that shares 90% if it's DNA with us. It's got seeds for opposable thumbs. Imagine having babies through YOUR opposable thumbs, man! See, tuberculosis saw this as a potential problem, and decided to steer clear of the opposable thumbs. Using a complex scientific formula, they figured that if they were to evolve opposable thumbs, those thumbs would be their kneecaps, and that would make it pretty hard for them to hitch a ride on the Host Express

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

How did FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin die? I heard his sister Emily died of tuberculosis.?
^^^^^ (Info on Emily Chopin from "Eternal Sonata" <-[Game])
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chronic pulmonary tuberculosis
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Yes, Chopin did die of pulmonary tuberculosis. It started out as a mild version of pneumonia that lasted about half of his short life, and it eventually became the deadly disease. And his sister Emily did die of tuberculosis when she was just fourteen. Chopin was devastated, since he loved his sisters so much. When poor Chopin was on his death bed, his sister Ludwika was the one that was there for him. She was the one that took his heart to Poland, as Chopin requested (he was afraid of being buried alive, so he asked that his heart be taken out of his body and brought to his native land.)
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Most will agree on tuberculosis but there has been recent news that Chopin died of cystic fibrosis. Although scientists want Chopin's heart to be sure, the Polish government would not let them.
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You can read all about Chopin's life at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin Apparently it was just this year of 2008 that controversy arose regarding the precise nature of his illness, see Wikipedia, Final Years: "In 2008 a controversy arose over whether Chopin died of tuberculosis and not cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease whose complete clinical spectrum was not recognized until the 1930s, decades after his death. The Polish government declined to allow scientists to remove Chopin's heart from its repository for DNA testing.[36]" It's rather sad, I feel, that such a great composer as Chopin passed away in poverty and not able to afford proper medical attention. A great loss to the world then and now

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