
Tuberculosis Fact Sheet
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, the...
Tuberculosis: Causative Factors
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a type of bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The condition is spread when a person with an active TB infection in their lungs coughs or sneezes and someone else inhales the expelled droplets, which contain ...
Risk Factors For Tuberculosis Infection
Tuberculosis causes significant coughing, and when contaminated particles get into the air, everyone exposed to them is at risk. However, some people have TB risk factors that make them even more susceptible to tuberculosis infection. Your age, he...
Vaccine, Drug Treatment And Isolation
TB prevention consists of two main parts. The first part of TB prevention is to stop the transmission of TB from one adult to another. This is done through firstly, identifying people with active TB, and then curing them through the provision of d...
Addressing And Preventing Childhood Tuberculosis
There is an urgent need to recognize that prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB in children are important for public health as well as for ensuring the individual right of the child to health. Children suffer severe TB related illness that con...
Protect Your Family And Friends From Tuberculosis
People with TB disease can pass TB germs to others. But if they take the TB medicine the right way, they won’t pass TB germs to others.