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Can a healthy person get tuberculosis? if so, how does the infection occur to healthy people as i know it as an opportunistic disease?
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Yes: a healthy person can get tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is not an opportunistic infection. It is spread by bacteria in the air. But it is also true that people with HIV are more likely to get Tb.
Answered 1/5/2019
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