What are the causes of tuberculosis?

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is what causes someone to have Tuberculosis, (TB). Many times it is spread when droplets of it is released in the air by someone who is untreated. This can be from any thing that is released out of their mouth, like a cough, spit, singing or sneezing.

TB is very contagious but now that most people get treated for it, it's not as easy to contract. There are now medications that someone can take to keep them from being contagious. However, in some places, this treatment might not be available.

People do bleed from coughing without treatment. You really shouldn't go to great measures to protect yourself from the disease, since there shouldn't be a great deal of people with the disease. There really shouldn't be many people that are untreated.

However, if you live in an area that doesn't have treatments available, you can always wear a mask when out and about. When you see someone like this, avoid contract or breathing around him or her. If you suspect someone has this, just get a way from them and simply wash your hands thoroughly.

Vaccines are available for TB, but it's no longer given as a requirement in the U.S. This is because it is not a threat any more. I am 34 years old and did not receive the vaccine, but my friend who is 5 years older did receive it. It left a fairly large scar on her arm.

You can be tested to see if you are a carrier of the disease. They scrap a small piece of skin off your arm usually. In countries were available and TB is still a risk, vaccines are given to babies and smaller children.It can be passed on to a fetus from a mother, but this is rare.

Unless someone in your family, a close friend or a co-worker has this disease, you are not at too much risk. If you are worried you was exposed to this, you can have the test done. I would ask about the window time for the test ahead of time.

This disease was very out of control at one time. It was also called consumption because "it consumed people from the inside". My Great Grandfather actually had the disease but it never progressed into anything life threatening for him.

He had a grocery store and caught it from returnable drink bottles. My grandmother, his daughter was also a carrier of the disease, which she caught from him.No one else in my family ever had it. There were also very many experiential hospitals in the past here where I live in Kentucky.

One was located inside of Mammoth Cave.It was believe that the cool temperature would help. There was also one that was horrible that really did some bad things and is now said to be haunted. Waverly is now opened for people to visit, but it gives me the creeps just to drive by at a distance.

You can read more about this disease at the links included in the source.

Well we have to go back to before the introduction of the bacillus or bacterium. The first stage is the exhaustion, stress, and over work. Your own immune resistance is lowered.

So that is really the first cause. Stress and exhaustion. The second is the pathogen itself Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the third is the transport mechanism.

TB can harbor in soil, body fluids, in the air and remain dormant. The most common areas of thriving are high poverty areas where the inability to wash, is common. However we are beginning to see an influx of pathogen transport into higher areas where inoculations are being touted as causes for a variety of diseases.

So many people are not getting vaccinated against it. Now we come to the bacillus: Mycobacterium tuberculosis.It is along rod shaped bacteria that has a secondary enclosing capsule, it looks like a shadow under the microscope. It is spread by droplets, direct contamination.

In the late 1800s and early to mid 20th century it was and still is in some place still unlawful to spit in public. This law was enacted to prevent the spread of TB. In may areas there are still fines for spitting.

There are currently two different types of TB Latent infection and TB disease and drug resistant TB. And is sometimes cross identified as Consumption. In summation we have: as the common causes of TB as, we are not including the bacillus since that is an obvious factor.

The true causes for the bacillus to run rampant are: Poverty Lack of immunization/Vaccinations Non symptomatic Carriers Droplet contamination Lack of immediate treatment Disasters On a side note. Many disaster areas, like Haiti, New Orleans, where health care and high death tolls abound, TB, along with Typhoid, Cholera etc run rampant see a higher incidence of these diseases because it can thrive unchecked. Many mobile hospitals have now begin providing inoculations to these diseases to keep the death toll and secondary complications lower.

The WHO and CDC provide fact sheets and information for the public and health professionals on the causes, treatments, prevention’s and outcomes and current high epidemic areas.

Mycobacterium bovis is responsible for tuberculosis in bovine. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis in human. Sometimes bovine tuberculosis affects the human and cause glandular tuberculosis.Wikipedia.

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