Can TB be contracted in any unconventional way apart from air ?
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Breast feeding, if the mother hasn't been treated and is contagious.  \n\nYou don't get TB by just touching the clothes or shaking the hands of someone who is infected. Tuberculosis is spread (transmitted) primarily from person to person during close contact by breathing infected air.\n\nThere is a form of tuberculosis, however, that is transmitted by drinking unpasteurized milk. Related bacteria, called Mycobacterium bovis, cause this form of TB. It previously was a major cause of TB in children, but rarely causes TB now since most milk is pasteurized (a heating process that kills thebacteria).
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In most cases tuberculosis also called TB is found in one spot usually in the lung or sometimes in a bone.  Actually it can grow in many places in the body but usually just one place at a time.  If your immune system is not working too well the TB germ can spread to lots of areas of the body at the same time.  That is called disseminated tuberculosis.  It takes a good doctor and a very obedient patient to get it under control when it gets to that stage.  Good luck and find a great infectious disease doctor who can really help!
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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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chicken pox and influenza (both respiratory infections).  however, i wouldn't say they spread "by air" but rather by aerosols coughed up by an infected person.
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it is possible but it would take an extreme amount of pressure and you might not be able to manually pump it full enough, you would have to use an electric pump and make sure the air needle can't pop out.
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No- you would not be able to get an infection this way- it would have to be bodily fluids directly from the infected person to the noninfected person.
205021
There is no proof for such possibility. The virus has a very weak environmental susceptibility and is not able to be transmitted via contaminated surfaces. Modes of transmission are sexual, vertical, blood or blood components transfusion, broken skin+infected blood and contaminated needles used by injection drug users.\nThe disease is diagnosed when an opportunistic infection e.g. P Cranii P or malignancy e.g. K. Sarcoma are detected, HIV antibodies in the blood and the increased numbers of T cells in the blood.
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www.concordma.com/magazine/winter03/tuberculosis.html\n\nAnswers all your questions
158908
We just have some treatments for cancer and TB.  I guess you can cure TB but I don't think they ever call it "cure" with cancer.  There are treatments for HIV that work with varying degrees of success.
1006131
Tuberculosis and AIDS are completely different and one has nothing to do with the other. \n\nthe reason why the rate of TB is high in certain areas, is because anybody diagnosed with TB needs full medical attention and needs to be isolated. im guessing that the place has limited facilities and medications, or some people remain undiagnosed with the disease so they walk around in public contaminating other people. TB is airborne -- if you're in the same room with another person diagnosed with it, you will get infected. AIDS is transmitted through sexual or blood contact so the prevalence is not as rampant as TB.
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I'm surprised that you wouldn't know, with the news and media coverage in the past 15 years or so.\nIt is contracted by the exchange of body fluids from an infected person.\nUnprotected sex, sharing a drug needle, contact between open sores (herpes, cold sores) are the most common ways to contract HIV.
556297
No.  TB scars (fibrosis) will develop into cavitations (holes), but there is no way to remove them.
142019
Never heard of doing it that way.\n\nK
1007642
Dude, if you've had a cough and cold for a year there's no home remedy for it. Get a TB test. Sounds like you could be seriously ill. At the very least, you might have sever asthma.
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that you have been exposed to TB
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NO. YOU CAN ONLY CONTRACT IT BY VIRUS (THE OPEN SORES) TO SKIN DIRECT CONTACT (WHICH CAN HAPPEN ON HARD SURFACES LIKE A TOILET SEAT BEING THAT YOU  WOULD SIT DOWN RIGHT ON ANY VIRUS LEFT BY THE INFECTED PERSON. THE WATER KEEPS YOU SAFE FROM DIRECT CONTACT OF THE INFECTED PERSONS OUTBREAK. PLUS IF IT WERE TRUE DOCTORS EVERYWHERE WOULD TELL YOU NEVER, EVER GO IN WATER THAT THE PUBLIC USES-WHICH IS BASICALLY EVERYWHERE-BEACHES, SWIMMING POOLS, HOT TUBS, LAKES, ETC.
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Yes,, if a person has active tuberculosis\n and licks a spoon ......\n the person who puts, that spoon in there mouth\n ( without thoroughly cleaning it first ,may  contact  tuberculosis .\n\n It is mainly spread ,through coughing in public ;\n\n ( airborne bacillus are inhaled, &  can infect any one)\nWho is not   protected,\n by a mask or  succesfully  vaccinated against   tuberculosis.\n( BCG vaccine )\n\n>^,^<