Tuberculosis

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Topic 👉 tuberculosis 👈

⚡️What do you know about tuberculosis?

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Tuberculosis is a disease result of bacteria, which is known as mycobacterium tuberculosis. It's predominantly infects the lungs. However, it might also affect some separate areas of the body, such as spine, brain, and kidney. Tuberculosis can be strew through the air from one person to another, then if a person with tuberculosis diseases coughs or speaks a tiny droplet containing tuberculosis bacteria are released into the air and people who breathe in this droplet can become infected.

Here are the three major symptoms.

• Feeling pains in the chest
• Coughing out blood
• Strong cough: Like when someone has a hard cough that lasts for months or weeks, that's also the sign of tuberculosis.
  There are familiar symptoms such as shortness of breath, fever, weakness, and pain's along the lungs, etc.
  
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⚡️Write about tuberculosis prevalence,incidence, and prognosis.

• Prevalence: Tuberculosis is typically in most parts of the world. In the year 2022, according to WHO, an estimated 10.6 million individuals fell afflicted with tuberculosis all over the world. Another one is regional variation. Tuberculosis is most prevalent is south East Asian and Africa, accounting for over 2 to 3rd of new cases.

The seventh countries with the highest tuberculosis burden around 2022 were China India Indonesia Pakistan Nigeria and Congo.

• Incidence: Socio-economic factors like poverty overcrowding and malnutrition contribute to higher incidence rates. Then, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate, they were about 125 thousand people who died by tuberculosis in 2022, and 342 thousand were infected. This was just only in Nigeria. Worldwide, the results showed that over 10 million + people were ill by tuberculosis.

• prognosis: tuberculosis is preventable and curable with prompt decision and proper treatment. So, the quality treatment authorities for arid immune tuberculosis persist for six months and involve a collaboration of antibiotics, and for the treatment triumph tariff for dry immune tuberculosis is increas around 80% when a patient abide by treatment authorities.
  
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  it's essential to contact your doctor or visit the hospital for a proper skin test or blood test. In case you are at risk of tuberculosis infection.

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