how do you get infected with tuberculosis? is it airborne? by kissing?
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How is TB spread?\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\nWhen a person breathes in TB bacteria, the bacteria can settle in the lungs and begin to grow. From there, they can move through the blood to other parts of the body, such as the kidney, spine, and brain.\n\nTB in the lungs or throat can be infectious. This means that the bacteria can be spread to other people. TB in other parts of the body, such as the kidney or spine, is usually not infectious.\n\nPeople with active TB disease are most likely to spread it to people they spend time with every day. This includes family members, friends, and coworkers.\n\nLatent TB infection:\n\nIn most people who breathe in TB bacteria and become infected, the body is able to fight the bacteria to stop them from growing. The bacteria become inactive, but they remain alive in the body and can become active later. This is called latent TB infection. People with latent TB infection\n\nhave no symptoms \ndon't feel sick \ncan't spread TB to others \nusually have a positive skin test reaction \ncan develop active TB disease if they do not receive treatment for latent TB infection \nMany people who have latent TB infection never develop active TB disease. In these people, the TB bacteria remain inactive for a lifetime without causing disease. But in other people, especially people who have weak immune systems, the bacteria become active and cause TB disease.\n\n\nActive TB disease:\n\nTB bacteria become active if the immune system can't stop them from growing. The active bacteria begin to multiply in the body and cause active TB disease. The bacteria attack the body and destroy tissue. If this occurs in the lungs, the bacteria can actually create a hole in the lung. Some people develop active TB disease soon after becoming infected, before their immune system can fight the TB bacteria. Other people may get sick later, when their immune system becomes weak for another reason.\n\nBabies and young children often have weak immune systems. People infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have very weak immune systems. Other people can have weak immune systems, too, especially people with any of these conditions: \n\nsubstance abuse \ndiabetes mellitus \nsilicosis \ncancer of the head or neck \nleukemia or Hodgkin's disease \nsevere kidney disease \nlow body weight \ncertain medical treatments (such as corticosteroid treatment or organ transplants) \nspecialized treatment for rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn’s disease \nSymptoms of TB depend on where in the body the TB bacteria are growing. TB bacteria usually grow in the lungs. TB in the lungs may cause symptoms such as\n\na bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer \npain in the chest \ncoughing up blood or sputum (phlegm from deep inside the lungs) \n\nOther symptoms of active TB disease are:\n\nweakness or fatigue \nweight loss \nno appetite \nchills \nfever \nsweating at night
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Pneumonia (say: new-mo-nya) is an infection of one or both lungs. To know what that means, you have to know something about lungs and what they do. When you breathe in, you pull oxygen into your lungs. That oxygen travels through breathing tubes and eventually gets into your blood through the alveoli (say: al-vee-oh-lie). \n\nAlveoli are tiny air sacs covered in tiny blood vessels called capillaries. How can something so small get oxygen into your blood? You have about 600 million of them! When oxygen-rich air reaches the alveoli, it can be absorbed into the blood. Then your red blood cells can carry oxygen all over your body. The body needs oxygen to keep working properly and to stay alive. \n\nBut if a person has pneumonia, his or her lungs can't do this important job very well. Why? Because this kind of infection creates fluid that blocks the alveoli. This makes it hard for oxygen to get deep into the lungs, where it can be passed through to the blood. The person can still breathe, but it might be hard to breathe, especially if the pneumonia affects both lungs.\n\nPneumonia can happen to people at any age, from tiny babies to really old people. Getting wet doesn't cause pneumonia, but an infection from bacteria or a virus does. A cold or flu that gets worse can turn into pneumonia. That's because the cold or flu will irritate the lungs, creating an environment where it's easier for pneumonia germs to move in and start an infection.
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I wouldnt take to much stock in the many answers you have already recieved. One of the people here said you can get it through kissing which is complete BS, if you are kissing someone with open sores that are bleeding and you have open sores, maybe. But its contracted mostly through blood and bodily fluids that contain blood. If a dude came in your eye and your eye has a broken vessel possibly. Best advice from me, dont let anyone cum in your face or elsewhere to be safe and its sick anyway!
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Possible. One can have HIV infection from infected blood or sexual fluids. If you happen to touch  an infected blood or sexual fluid and you accidentally touch your wound (if you have one) or you happen to touch the part of your sex organ that is most sensitive to the virus (by having sex with yourself as you said??), then you might get HIV...Just making an analysis.
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That depends on the specific disease. There's coughing on someone, sharing saliva, blood to blood, sex, touching something that a sick person has touched and not washing your hands, drinking after someone. Usually the diseases with the highest morbidity or mortality rates are not so easily caught as touching the same things as someone else, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. It really depends on what kind of disease you're talking about, your question is not real specific.\nHIV is spread through sex or blood to blood. Typhoid can be spread, for example, by someone using the restroom and not washing their hands, and then preparing food. Colds and Flus are spread by coughing on someone or touching someting that a contagious person touched and not washing your hands. There are STDs you get from sex.\nThere are a lot of ways to get diseases from other people and animals. Being bitten by an animal too.\nYou can get certain diseases by drinking milk that has not been pasteurized. There are so many ways, and so many diseases. Click on the link for more information.
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u cant "catch" it. it starts out as HIV and when it gets really bad its AIDS\n\nbut u can get it by: sex, two open wounds touching, if u have it and u have a baby, then theyll get it, breastfeeding\n\ni think thats it
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If the cut or laceration has exposed blood (bodily fluid) on both folks, it is possible to transmit HIV (the virus that can lead to AIDS if unchecked). However, it is more likely to transmit hepatitis. HIV is a very fragile virus that dies in contact with the air once outside the body. However, if the fluids exchange in very intimate contact where air is not present (pressing lips and rubbing frantically will do it), the chances for infection increase. There is no current evidence (in the 20 plus years we have been studying the disease transmission modes) that saliva transmits enough of the viable virus to cause infection.
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HIV (human immunodefiencency virus) can only be transmitted through direct contact with blood or body fluids. (sexual intercourse, oral sex, sharing needles, etc.) it is unusual for HIV to be transmitted through kissing, although it is possible if one or both people have cuts, cold sores, or other open areas in the mouth or on the lips. you can not get HIV from hugging, or other contact like it. You should go to a good website for more information on HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.
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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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Can TB Re-occur?\n\nYes it is possible. Like any bacterial infections, it can be caught and cured more than once. So if you have any doubts, please consult your local doctor.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by germs that are spread from person to person through the air. TB usually affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body, such as the brain, the kidneys, or the spine. A person with TB can die if they do not get treatment.\nThe general symptoms of TB disease include feelings of sickness or weakness, weight loss, fever, and night sweats. The symptoms of TB disease of the lungs also include coughing, chest pain, and the coughing up of blood. Symptoms of TB disease in other parts of the body depend on the area affected.\n\n\nTB germs are put into the air when a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, speaks, or sings. These germs can stay in the air for several hours, depending on the environment. Persons who breathe in the air containing these TB germs can become infected; this is called latent TB infection. \n\n\nPeople with latent TB infection have TB germs in their bodies, but they are not sick because the germs are not active. These people do not have symptoms of TB disease, and they cannot spread the germs to others. However, they may develop TB disease in the future. They are often prescribed treatment to prevent them from developing TB disease. \n\nPeople with TB disease are sick from TB germs that are active, meaning that they are multiplying and destroying tissue in their body. They usually have symptoms of TB disease. People with TB disease of the lungs or throat are capable of spreading germs to others. They are prescribed drugs that can cure TB disease.\n\n\nA person with latent TB infection cannot spread germs to other people. You do not need to be tested if you have spent time with someone with latent TB infection. However, if you have spent time with someone with TB disease or someone with symptoms of TB, you should be tested. \n\n\nPeople with TB disease are most likely to spread the germs to people they spend time with every day, such as family members or coworkers. If you have been around someone who has TB disease, you should go to your doctor or your local health department for tests. \n\n\nThere are two tests that can be used to help detect TB infection. The Mantoux tuberculin skin test is performed by injecting a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the skin in the lower part of the arm. A person given the tuberculin skin test must return within 48 to 72 hours to have a trained health care worker look for a reaction on the arm. A second test is the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test. The QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test is a blood test that measures how the patient’s immune system reacts to the germs that cause TB. \n\nA positive tuberculin skin test or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test only tells that a person has been infected with TB germs. It does not tell whether or not the person has progressed to TB disease. Other tests, such as a chest x-ray and a sample of sputum, are needed to see whether the person has TB disease. \n\nBCG is a vaccine for TB disease. BCG is used in many countries, but it is not generally recommended in the United States. BCG vaccination does not completely prevent people from getting TB. It may also cause a false positive tuberculin skin test. However, persons who have been vaccinated with BCG can be given a tuberculin skin test or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test.\nIf you have latent TB infection but not TB disease, your doctor may want you to take a drug to kill the TB germs and prevent you from developing TB disease. The decision about taking treatment for latent infection will be based on your chances of developing TB disease. Some people are more likely than others to develop TB disease once they have TB infection. This includes people with HIV infection, people who were recently exposed to someone with TB disease, and people with certain medical conditions. \n\nTB disease can be cured by taking several drugs for 6 to 12 months. It is very important that people who have TB disease finish the medicine, and take
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yes!!any bodily fluids or skin contact can cause you to be infected especially if your partner is
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I am not a medical person but I have volunteered at many different sexual health clinics and come from a medical family.  \nWith that said:  \n\n\n\nHepatitis C is transmitted when the blood or body fluids from an infected person enters the body of a person who is not immune to the disease.\n\nIt can be spread by:\n\nHaving sex with an infected person without a condom (though experts don't know if condoms prevent transmission or just reduce it).\nSharing drugs and needles.\nBeing cut by infected needles (health care workers).\nBirth from a mother to a child.\nHepatitis C is not spread through food, water, or by casual contact.\n\nUnless you are sharing razors and bodily fluids with this guy, you are not in any danger.  You could hug him, kiss him, sit on his lap, hold his hand - all of these, all day long, and you would NOT get the disease.  \n\nIt is also not a form of HIV/AIDS, they are completely different diseases. \n\nI think it is wonderful that you would take someone in, but you should never do anything that you are not completely comfortable with.  You and your family are absolutely safe with this person unless you start sharing needles or having sex.  \n\nI suggest going to www.webmd.com (i've included the link to a Hep C overview), www.wikipedia.org, and asking your family doctor for advice in order to make yourself absolutely comfortable.  \n\nHope it helps!
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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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While less frequently diagnosed, Genital TB is cured the same way as pulmonary TB. In fact, since your particular form of TB is not pulmonary or related to the respiratory system, isolation is not necessary as there is no way for it to be transmitted through the air.\n\nGenerally TB is caused when an active, infectious pulmonary TB patients breathes the TB Germ into the air. Another person breathes the TB germ into their body and it becomes encapsulated in the lungs and inactive (TB infection). If the person is not tested (PPD or skin test) to detect the TB germ in their body and they never receive preventive treatment, over the course of their lifetime, the person may develop active TB.\n\nIf active TB develops, the most likely scenario is pulmonary TB, but TB can actually travel and affect any part of the body (and I have seen it).\n\nPreventive treatment is much preferable (one medication in most cases for 9 months) to full TB treatment ( 4 medications from 6-9 months depending on the susceptibility pattern of the TB germ). However, unfortunately many people do not complete a course of preventive treatment as inactive TB is generally asymptomatic, the person feels well and often does not feel the need to take medication.
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Not to fear.  You cannot get HIV or Aids this way....I PROMISE!!  The way you get Aids/HIV is through blood contact or mixing body fluids, such as intercourse or a blood transfusion with infected blood (which is rare these days as all blood is now tested). You can also get Aids/HIV by sharing the same needle which drug addicts sometimes do.\n\nYOU ARE NOT INFECTED.  The boy who did this to you is a mental case, probably.  Stay clear from him. You should tell your parents about this incident. As a parent, I know I would want to know if this happened to one of my children. If I was your parent, I would call HIS parents so hopefully it will never happen again.  Please consider doing this.  Thanks for writing.
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god no, u can get all sorts of infections.it rips so easy, it looks awefull and try to make out w/ a guy w/ braces or somin, lord!