about lymph tuberkulosis and how it can spread to other people.
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You mean tuberculosis lymphadenitis, an inflammation of the lymph glands caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  It is a TB that is outside the lungs.  TB is primarily a respiratory disease and is spread through droplet infection (sneezing, coughing).  If you belive you have been exposed to an active case, you will need to see your doctor for a Mantoux test (sometimes called a PPD).  It's a skin test using a purified protein derivative (PPD) with the results read 48-72 hours later. If you are the one with TBL, and I certainly hope you're not, you should be on a medication "cocktail" and in isolation (hopefully in a negative pressure room in a hospital).
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HIV does not survive well outside of the human body. This really smells like an urban legend.
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TB is very contagious. It is spread by droplets. Meaning when someone coughs microscopic droplets hang in the air and you breath them in. You can get TB ANYWHERE!. The mall, in line at a store etc.\nSome people will have a positive skin reaction. But that does not mean that all the time that they have it. It is an indication that they were exposed. Once you test positive on your skin you go for a chest xray. and never have another skin test just a yearly chest xray to make sure you do not have active TB.\n\nAND NO YOU WILL NOT BE FIRED FROM YOUR JOB IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD\n\nYou will just have to take a six month course of medication.
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I saw on PBS on night a special on the plaques in England and some people carried genes to help prevent the disease and now they're saying people with those genes that survived the bubonic plaque can't get AIDS. This is because AIDS and the bubonic plaque attack the same way and the gene makes it so the disease can't enter the systems and ends up attacking it's self. Not sure if that was helpful or not. But i'm sure they could do something with the knoweledge.
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pTB is the common abbreviation for pleural tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease.\n\nTuberculosis is contagious only when it is both \n\na) active and\nb) pulmonary (meaning that it is in the lungs).\n\nTuberculosis in other areas of the body (known as extrapulmonary TB) cannot readily be spread to others.\n\nPleural TB is tuberculosis that is present in the pleural space - the area between the lungs and the ribs.\n\nTreatment of tuberculosis is lengthy and somewhat complex.\n\nRead more about extrapulmonary TB at the site linked below:
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HIV spreads not only by having unprotected sex, there are other modes also, like, blood transfusion from an unknown source, using needles without sterilising like being done by drug users, etc. But it does not spread by simple touching or hugging or kissing or such harmless activities.\nIn your case, if and when you have sex with many women, how do you propose to ensure that the other party is uninfected? So....so....so......\nBetter safe than sorry!
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Transmission occurs when blood from an infected person enters the body of a person who is not infected.  \nHCV is spread through sharing needles or "works" when "shooting" drugs, through needlesticks or sharps exposures on the job, or from an infected mother to her baby during birth.
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Typhus fever, also called typhus, is a disease that occurs throughout the world in areas where people and rats occupy the same buildings and where large numbers of mice live.  It is also called murine typhus fever and is rare in the U.S.\n\nWho gets typhus?\nAnyone can get typhus but it occurs more often in people whose occupations or living conditions bring them into contact with rats.\n\nHow is this disease spread?\nIt is not directly spread from person to person. People get typhus after infective rat fleas contaminate fresh skin wounds or the flea bite site.\n\nWhere are the organisms that cause typhus found?\nRats, mice and possibly other small mammals harbor the germ that causes disease. Fleas become infected by biting these animals and then may pass the disease to humans.
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Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.
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They can die from this disease.
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That's an infringement on their rights to privacy. We wouldn't think to post pictures of people with tuberculosis or hepatitis, and those diseases are much more easily spread than HIV. The problem is that HIV is irrevocably linked to sexual activity and drug use, which tends to lend a stigma to it for some people. But there are plenty of HIV patients who contracted the disease through other methods. I assume that the reason someone would want to post pictures would be to prevent someone from contracting the disease from a sexual partner who didn't disclose their health concerns, but in effect, that would be an attempt to legislate morality, which is rarely effective.
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AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.\n\nYou can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.\n\nThere are two main ways this can happen:\n\n1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).\n\n2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.\n\nYou CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.
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* TB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus)\n    * Consumption (TB seemed to consume people from within with its symptoms of bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting)\n    * Wasting disease\n    * White plague (TB sufferers appear markedly pale)\n    * Phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis\n    * Scrofula (swollen neck glands)\n    * King's evil (so called because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula)\n    * Pott's disease of the spine\n    * Miliary TB (x-ray lesions look like millet seeds)\n    * Tabes mesenterica (TB of the abdomen)\n    * Lupus vulgaris (the common wolf - TB of the skin)\n    * Prosector's wart, also a kind of TB of the skin, transmitted by contact with contaminated cadavers to anatomists, pathologists, veterinarians, surgeons, butchers, etc.\n    * Koch's Disease named after Robert Koch who discovered the tuberculosis bacilli.\n\n[edit]\n\nThe bacterium\nAcid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.\nEnlarge\nAcid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.\n\nThe cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB),
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no need to worry . it happens during the course of pulmonary  TB [lung T  B ] IT RESOLVES ON ITS OWN . KINDLY CONTINUE THE FULL COURSE OF TREATMENT
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Overview of Leprosy\n\n\nLeprosy is also known as Hansen's disease. It is a chronic infectious disease, that primarily affects the nerves and the skin. In particular, the hands the face are affected, where numbness and disfigurement may occur. Rarely, does the disease affect individuals in developed parts of the world. It is most commonly found in South America, Africa and parts of Asia. The disease is not easily transmitted from one person to another. \n\n\nCauses of Leprosy\n\n\nLeprosy is caused by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. It is thought to transmitted through airborne droplets or by direct contact with infected areas in other people. \n\n\nSigns and Symptoms of Leprosy\n\n\nLeprosy develops very slowly. Usually, no symptoms are present for several years. At that point, numbness of the hands, feet and face may occur. Gradually, the skin over the affected areas becomes thicker and deformed. Coloration may change.
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From an in depth ringworm information site, (link listed below in sources):\n\n"The fungus that causes ringworm is spread from one person to another. Sometimes this happens through direct contact. An infected person may touch someone who does not have the disease and directly transfer the fungus to the second person.\n\nAt other times, the fungus is transferred indirectly. For example, people with ringworm may leave the fungus on towels, hairbrushes, or other objects. A second person may then pick up the fungus while handling these objects.\n\nCertain conditions increase the risk of spreading the fungi (more than one fungus) that cause ringworm. These include dampness, humidity, and dirty, crowded living conditions."\n\nThe other thing to keep in mind is that if you have any infected friends, family or animals, they may have transmitted it to you as simply as you touching or petting them on or near the infected area and then you running your hands through your hair!
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Yes it can spread or "metastasize".  One of my first cousins recently died of it.  He was in his early 50's and by the time he died the cancer had spread to his bones, [mainly his spine] as well as to his brain.    Anytime it spreads to the bones you can expect significant pain.\n\nIf you are interesting in learning more, http://www.lungcanceronline.org/\n\nhas lots of info.