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How is tb spread?
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Coughing: The most common way TB is spead by close contact with some with active TB disease. It is often caught by someone coughing and spreading the TB organism in the air which other people inhale into their lungs and contract tb.
Answered 1/12/2016
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Cough: Cough aerosolizes TB and than it can be inhaled by somebody healthy.
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