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Is the most common major infectious disease today.
Transmission can only occur from people with active TB disease,
The cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a slow-growing aerobic bacterium that divides every 16 to 20 hours. This is extremely slow compared to other bacteria,TB is spread through aerosol droplets which are expelled when persons with active TB disease cough, sneeze, speak, or spit.
What happens with this disease is that the alveoli inside the lungs(the little grape bundle looking things that help with oxygen transfer and CO2 diffusion), begin to harden and stop functioning.
Often the result of this is the patient coughing up great amounts of blood.
The term consumption came from the appearance of the patients looking as though they were being consumed from the inside out.
During the later parts of the 1800's patients were sent out west in hopes that the higher elevations and drier climates would help them breathe.
Later when the Iron Lungs were developed, they found equal if not better success in the treatment of this disease.
Iron Lungs also went into common usage when the polio epidemic hit, and there were paitients
whose chest muscles were affected and they were unable to inhale and exhale without assistance.
Tuberculosis Hospitals did not begin to open in the United States until 1885. The American Tuberculosis Association, changed names and is now the American Lung Association.
In the many years and study of this disease, there are treatments and vaccinations available. For more information on the disease and your area of the country, contact your local health department, or speak with your own doctor.
Doc Holliday the famous poker playing gunslinger from the wild west days. Died of TB, in a Sanitorium in Colorado in 1887.
I hope this was enligjtening enough, if not, do a search for Tuberculosis in the search engine of choice, and read up.
I could have gotten deeper on the subject, but I didn't want to sound like an Epidemiologist.
i went in thr it was scary but we managed
A nicely done site.
Oh and i a had walked towards the smoke stack and then decided to turn around and come back another time when on the way back i was next to the childerens ward and i heard what sounded liek a woman screaming coming from the adult ward which is on the other side of the property. the sound was really faint at first then became louder and closer. but as it got closer it started to sound like animals fighting. so im not sure if it was an animal or and actual huanting noise. but that is the only occourance i came across but i will return next weekend and see what happens.
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