can tb be a bioterism agent? not to be paranoid but there are alot of + cases in my area?
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TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected.\n\nHowever, not everyone infected with TB bacteria becomes sick. People who are not sick have what is called latent TB infection. People who have latent TB infection do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms, and cannot spread TB to others. But, some people with latent TB infection go on to get TB disease.\n\nPeople with active TB disease can be treated and cured if they seek medical help. Even better, people with latent TB infection can take medicine so that they will not develop active TB disease.
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I cannot find any information that links COPD with TB. Sorry.
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TB is an extremely dangerous and contagious disease!  If you are kissing someone who has it, you need to get tested right away!  You can pass it on to your family members and other close friends!  Stop kissing the person!  Get to a doctor immediately!!!!  I am really not kidding!!!
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Some of the TB drugs are available in syrup form. You really have to check your doctor and insist. Also pay a visit to a good pharmacist; they often know more details about drugs than doctors.
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Many of the "cures" that you find on the net contain Tea Tree oil. After looking at some of the sites, I realized that I have one toe nail that doesn't look or feel quite right so I am going to the healthfood store today to get some tea tree oil. I have used it before for other things like my husbands dermatitis and for tooth picks for bad breath. This oil kills bacteria and fungus as well as some virus's. I will look around at the store and see if there is any better over the counter suggestion (besides what you can get at Wally World and Walgrees). It might be possible to take a pill or three, I will ask my herbal specialist and get back to you!
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it is ridiculous and rather anal retentive for you to ask for references when you are asking for a person's opinion.\n\ncan't educated people give their insight without looking up the insight of other educated people?  where do you think they got theirs?  eventually it goes back to common sense and personal observations.  if your point is to bring YA! out of the dumps of misspellings and "i don't know, but thanks for the points!" answers, i respect that, but it won't happen overnight and it won't happen on questions like this just because you stick your signature addendum to the end.\n\nif you absolutely must have sources, you shouldn't put so much faith in internet links.  anyone can put anything on the internet and pass it off as fact.  do you believe them because their site design is superb, or because they pretend to be a physician?  if you want online sources, find them at google scholar or pub med.  even wikipedia is riddled with errors.  if you want better sources, try your doctor's office for medical journals, or your local library, or ask specific questions to an expert.\n\n\nas for answering your question....\n\nfirst, antibiotics are not the cure for a bacterial infection, they are only part of the cure.  the other part is the immune system.  if you use enough antibiotic to kill every last bit of the infection, you'll also kill most or all of the beneficial strains of bacteria which we need.  most bacteria found in the human body are beneficial or harmless bacteria.  very few actually make people sick.  but antibiotics will kill any bacteria that is structurally similar to the target infective strain.  as a result, the helpful bacteria may be wiped out and the person will feel worse as they can't perform certain body functions without bacteria.  so usually you take a dose of antibiotic three times a day to wipe out most of the parent cells (or just prevent them from reproducing), and then let your immune system concentrate it's efforts on the remaining harmful bacteria.  a few days worth of treatment will make the person feel much better, but if there is even one cell of resistant bacteria, the infection can come back as that cell reproduces exponentially.  the infection will be harder to beat the second time.  so continuing treatment for several days after improvement is noted is an extra precaution.  (source: any introductory biology text)\n\nmedicine is expensive.  when people are really sick, they don't work and therefore don't earn money.  (if they aren't really sick, they are less likely to seek medical care and therefore won't receive a prescription for antibiotics.)   if they don't start to feel better within a couple of days they probably have a resistant strain of bacteria (or their immune system is compromised) and need to switch to a more expensive, stronger antibiotic.  (source: medical statistics, bacterial life cycle for whatever specific strain interests you, common sense)  if there is no need for additional medication, why push for it?  it's a waste of money at best, and a way for the individual's condition to deteriorate, at worst.\n\nthe point is, if you start to feel a lot better two days after starting the medication, and completely normal within three days... taking antibiotics for twenty-seven more days will not provide more benefit than taking it seven more days, and will probably have negative consequences with regards to helpful bacteria.  just because you feel better, though, doesn't mean your infection is gone.  one bacterium doesn't make a person feel sick.  but one bacterium can turn into a million bacteria very quickly.  for example, under optimum conditions, escherichia coli can divide every 20 minutes.\n\nso let's say you have one e.coli cell.  in twenty minutes you have two.  in two hours you have over 4 billion.  so the antibiotic just makes the conditions less than optimum, either preventing
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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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Anti-biotics - go see your Dr.
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I read recently a similar description from someone who said that it all cleared up after his wife started serving them thin sliced onions with a little salad vinegar 2-3 times a week and adding fresh garlic to soups and stews.  This might sound a little strange until you consider that the onions, garlic and vinegar are all naturally anti-biotic.  In World War I and II military doctors used garlic juice as an anti-biotic (with terrific results) when other anti-biotics were not available.  They knew to do this from study of history.  It has been used thusly for centuries.\n\n"Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food."\n---Hippocrates 400 BC
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Firstly, please don't worry about staying away from her - the person who told you this is insensitive and wrong. TB is infectious but only if the person has pulmonary (lung) TB and only if they are coughing lots of sputum (phlegm). If it was felt that you were at risk then your sister would already have been advised to stay away from you and may even have been admitted to hospital for isolation nursing. If you have all had your BCG (TB) vaccinations (usually at school) you will be safe. If not, then you will need to be treated with preventative medicines but this will be handled by TB specialist health professionals. Most TB cases are treated in the community and because of this there is an excellent system for screening and treating possible contacts such as family members of a sufferer. There are new strains of multi-drug resistant TB emerging, but if your sister had been diagnosed with one of these she would be in hospital and isolated. Even then you could visit her - you would just have to ake the same precautions the nursing and medical staff took such as gloves and masks. TB is considered cured after 6 months of treatment and although it does remain dormant in your system most people return to normal health and are not troubled again with it. The only reasons to worry about infection are if you are taking medicines that suppress your immune system such as anti-rejection drugs following transplant or chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Talk to your own doctor and he or she should be able to reassure you. I hope this helps you. Your sister will need love and TLC in the months to come - the medications she will be taking will probably make her feel unwell themselves. I hope she gets better soon.
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yes,,, but why you worried about only that,, u can also worried about:\ntuberculosis,, malta fever,, cancer,,AIDS,, and alot  alot
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Keep the children away from them. If a person with TB laughs, coughs, or even talks for that matter, they can infect the people around them very easily, and children and elderly are the most likely to get it. Or, you could wear a face mask but it would need to be changed atleast every twenty minutes.
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I think you got your mycobacteria mixed up with your bacteria.\ncan you repost this question in greater detail?
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You should be having regular sputum cultures, the acid fast bacilli that cause TB can be very difficult to treat so regular follow ups to your physician is a must
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it can if u have copd (emphysema, chronic bronchitis), the docs will rule out tb if it looks suspisious... there are a lot of patients that go through that... cancer is also something that looks like tb.. infact any upper lobe change in ur x ray will have them yelling rule out tb
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs. But, TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal. TB disease was once the leading cause of death in the United States.\n\nTB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected.\n\nHowever, not everyone infected with TB bacteria becomes sick. People who are not sick have what is called latent TB infection. People who have latent TB infection do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms, and cannot spread TB to others. But, some people with latent TB infection go on to get TB disease.\n\nPeople with active TB disease can be treated and cured if they seek medical help. Even better, people with latent TB infection can take medicine so that they will not develop active TB disease.