A 41-year-old member asked:
what are my chances of getting tuberculosis if i travel to south africa?
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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
Psychiatry 25 years experience
TB: According to the World Health Organization - Tuberculosis that is as extensively-drug resistant (XDR) & totally drug resistant (TDR) TB is found in South Africa. I can not provide a statistical probability that you will be come infected.
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A 32-year-old male asked:
I want information about tb?
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Dr. Alvin Lin answered
Geriatrics 30 years experience
Tuberculosis: Go search online. Check out http://www.Cdc.Gov/tb/, http://www.Who.Int/topics/tuberculosis/en/ & http://www.Mayoclinic.Com/health/tuberculosis/ds00372 for info.
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A 56-year-old female asked:
What is TB ? And how is it cure ?
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Dr. Robert Killian answered
General Practice 28 years experience
Tuberculosis: This feared infection is caused by a type of bug known as a mycobacterium. In the past there were significant more risks in this country and there were even sanitoriums to house those infected and to keep them from the general population.
It is difficult to treat but now there are medications that one takes for some time to cure this infection.
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Australia
A 41-year-old female asked:
What is TB and what couses it?
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Dr. Martin Raff answered
Infectious Disease 56 years experience
Tuberculosis: This is a potentially lethal infection which is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Primary infection is usually in the lungs, but it can spread and affect virtually any area of the body.
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Indianapolis, IN
A 25-year-old male asked:
What is MDR TB?
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Dr. Martin Raff answered
Infectious Disease 56 years experience
MDR: This stands for multiple drug resistant tuberculosis. This illness is gradually spreading throughout the world and is creating a great amount of difficulty in management of these patients, with a resultant higher mortality rate.
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A member asked:
What are the symptoms of TB?
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Dr. Radoslaw Bialczak answered
Emergency Medicine 6 years experience
Symptoms of TB are: Night sweats, unintentional weight loss, coughing up blood, prolonged fever or cough (more than 2 weeks). Risk factors also play a large role. Patients at higher risk are ones whose immune system is suppressed (because of HIV, immune suppressing medications, etc.), homeless patients, jail inmates, or patients with recent travel to an area with TB or recent contact wit people from such a region
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