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I did some research about tuberculosis and wanted to share and explain my findings. Firstly, tuberculosis, TB, is an extremely deadly disease that affects your lungs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2012). It is a highly contagious disease that comes from bacteria. It is spread when someone who is infected with the disease exposes it into the air through various ways such as breathing, coughing, or sneezing, and then someone else breathes in the bacteria in the air (CDC, 2012). The bacteria then goes into the lungs and infects the person. There are numerous types of TB and people with these different types are affected in various ways.
Firstly, tuberculosis can either be active or latent (CDC, 2012). What this means is that someone with latent tuberculosis may not even know they have it (MacKenzie, 2007). This person would not exhibit any symptoms and the cases with people having latent TB explain how it was found by chance. The different types of TB determine if it can be treated with drugs or not. Some types of tuberculosis can be fought off with the help of medication, and others are extremely resistant to these prescriptions (MacKenzie, 2007). TB can be treated by taking several medications for six to nine months (CDC, 2012). There are also strands of tuberculosis that are not affected by usual drugs but cannot stand against drugs that are used less often. There are different types of TB because over time some of the tuberculosis strands resist the drugs and become immune to the treatment (Koebler, 2013). When someone is infected, they have to completely beat the disease. This is because any surviving bacterium can carry the risk of the strand that becomes drug resistant. Over time, the bacteri...

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... and Prevention. (2012, June 28). Tuberculosis (TB). Retrieved
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Koebler, J. (2013, February 11). Doctors Struggling to Fight 'Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa. US News. Retrieved November 16, 2013, from http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/11/doctors-struggling-totally-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-south-africa?page=2
MacKenzie, D. (2007, May 30). Man quarantined in US for extreme drug-resistant TB. New Scientist. Retrieved November 16, 2013, from http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11954-man-quarantined-in-us-for-extreme-drugresistant-tb.html#.UogsAfmsiSp
National Conference of State Legislatures. (2010, August). State Quarantine and Isolation
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