Question

what is tuberculosis?????

Answer 1

• A potentially serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs.
• The bacteria that cause TB are spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

Answer 2

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Tuberculosis

• It is a chronic bacterial highly infectious disease.

• It is spread through air and affects the lungs of the person.

• It is caused due to Tubercle Bacillus discovered by a German scientist.⠀⠀⠀⠀

How it spreads?

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Tuberculosis spreads in the following manner :

• Through direct contact by patients.

• The infection spreads by inhalation of droplets expelled by the patient through sneezing, coughing, yawning, speaking loudly etc.

• Infected clothes, utensils other things etc . may spread the disease.

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What are its symptoms?

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The characteristics symptoms occur slowly.

Initially the patient feels-

• Easily exhausted.
• fatigued in doing ordinary work.
• feels excessive weakness.
• loss of appetite.
• hoarness of throat.
• pain in the chest due to infected lungs.
• sweats profusely at night and feels weak.

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How can we control or prevent it from spreading?

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There are some steps that must be need to taken undertaken to control the spread of tuberculosis-

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• Health and general sanitary condition of the community should be taken good care of.

• Every human being should live in fresh air and sunshine.

• Workers of cotton and spinning mills, coalmines and tobacco bide making,etc should wear protective shield to prevent inhalation of dust or silica dust.

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