TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest known human diseases. is still is one of the major causes of mortality (death)...

TB has many manifestations, affecting bone, the central nervous system, and many other organ systems, but it is primarily a pulmonary disease that is initiated by the deposition of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, contained in aerosol droplets, onto lung alveolar surfaces.

From this point, the progression of the disease can have several outcomes, determined largely by the response of the host immune system. The efficacy of this response is affected by intrinsic factors such as the genetics of the immune system as well as extrinsic factors, e.g. , insults to the immune system and the nutritional and physiological state of the host.
Tuberculosis is transmitted principally by inhalation of bacilli in moist droplets coughed out by individuals with open pulmonary tuberculosis. Dried bacilli in dust appears to be much less of a health hazard. The sputum of patients with positive findings on microscopy contains at least 5000 tubercle bacilli per million, these patients are considerably more infectious than those who who have negative finding on microscopy......

   SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULOSIS 

coughing that last for 3 or more weeks
Coughing out blood
Chest pain
Unintentional weight loss
Fever
Fatique
Night sweat
Loss of appetite .......

                                TREATMENT 

Depending on your risk factor, which might be Latent TB or Active TB...
See your doctor for proper medical prescription (drugs taken)......