Tuberculosis

What is Tuberculosis?


what are some characteristics of Tuberculosis and how did it affect humans then and now?

how does our location affect how the disease spreads?

how did people cure Tuberculosis at that time, and how do they cure it now?

spreads in the lungs

causes hard nodules (tubercles) that break down the respiratory tissues in the body, also forming cavities in the lungs

caused by Mycobacterium, bacillus (rod-shaped bacteria)

what age group are most affected by TB (then and now)

packed places where germs can spread easily from person to person (eg: london during the time of industrial revolution)

how does tuberculosis spread around Vietnam nowadays?

1/3 of the people in the industrial revolution died because of TB

modern cure in southeast asia

vaccination (bacille calmette-guerin) which lasts for about 15 years. they are up to 80% effective against extreme levels of TB

6 month antimicrobials course

what type of antibiotics do you need to eat to cure TB?

are there certain ages that have to take a different form of cure?

what do the antibiotics do to the human body in order to cure TB?

cure from the industrial revolution

how did people deal with this situation before cure was invented?

who invented a cure to TB during the industrial revolution?

do people normally have to be vaccinated in case of TB?

is TB common enough for us to get vaccinated?

did people with TB have to stay away from others while the doctors were finding a cure for their illness? where did they stay?

how did people get TB in the first place?

it is most common in southeast asia nowadays

how many people in south east asia are affected by TB?

compare and contrast

how do these cure differ from the cure they used back in the industrial revolution?

how have the rates of cure change?

effects of TB

what are some symptoms of TB?

effects on body

effects today

effects in industrial revolution

similarities

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people that get it would cough up blood