| ulosis is a lethal disease caused by a bacterium named | | | | children and HIV patients who have a weakened |
| Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Every year this disease | | | | immune system and that is why they can not fight |
| takes 2 million lives from all around the world and this | | | | against this disease when they get infected. |
| includes the developed countries too. | | | | 95% of those who get infected will develop the |
| Many people have this bacterium inside their body but | | | | disease only after several years as their immune |
| most of them do not have a manifest infection. Once | | | | system is able to inactivate the disease for a while. |
| the immune system is weakened the bacteria | | | | The disease will manifest when the immune system |
| becomes active and so symptoms of the disease | | | | will be too weak to fight the bacteria and so the lungs |
| appear. | | | | will be affected, and cavities filled with bacteria and |
| Not everyone develops this affection. The people at | | | | dead cells will appear inside them. |
| risk are those who have no homes, who live in | | | | The extra pulmonary tuberculosis refers at those |
| crowded and unsanitary conditions, who were in prison, | | | | cases in which tuberculosis had affected other organs |
| and who use drugs. The most affected ones are | | | | besides the lungs, like the liver, the kidneys and the |
| those who live in developing countries as the sanitary | | | | bones. |
| system in those countries is not well adjusted yet. | | | | The military tuberculosis is the form of the disease |
| Tuberculosis is a disease which affects mostly the | | | | which spreads by the bloodstream towards the entire |
| lungs but can also affect the kidneys, the brain, the | | | | organism. |
| bones and he joints. In most people tuberculosis is | | | | The way to show if someone is positive, meaning that |
| inactive but in those who have a weakened immune | | | | it is infected but it has no symptoms is to take a PPD |
| system like in the HIV patients tuberculosis becomes | | | | skin test. |
| active and manifests. | | | | In primary tuberculosis cases the symptoms which |
| Tuberculosis can be caught by air, if an infected | | | | appear are fever and fatigue mostly but cough, night |
| person coughs or sneezes and spreads the bacteria in | | | | sweats, and chest pains are present. |
| small droplets of saliva. Shaking hands or using the | | | | In post primary tuberculosis patients symptoms vary |
| same tools when working does not give you the | | | | from fever, cough and night sweats to weakness and |
| infection because the bacteria dies fast if exposed to | | | | loss of weight. In some cases coughing with blood can |
| sun and air and survives only if inhaled in the lungs. | | | | appear and problems with breathing can interfere. |
| In most of the cases if the bacteria gets into the lungs | | | | In extra pulmonary tuberculosis patients the symptoms |
| the immune system will stop it from dividing and so the | | | | vary due to the location of the disease. If the lymph |
| bacteria will remain in an inactive state inside the lungs. | | | | nodes are affected than they might become swollen; |
| These people have no symptoms and they can be | | | | in the disease is located in the bones and joints than |
| discovered as carriers of the disease only by a special | | | | the spine, knees and joist might become painful. |
| skin test. | | | | In the military tuberculosis symptoms vary from fever, |
| 5% of those who get infected will develop the primary | | | | loss of weight, cough and night sweats to headaches, |
| pulmonary tuberculosis. These patients are mostly | | | | skin rashes, and visual problems. |