TUBERCULOSIS

WHAT IS IT

• TB is a virus that is 2-4 nanometers long and .02-.05 nanometers wide
• They are little rod shaped viruses

BASIC INFO

• TB is spread by breathing in the air of somebody that carries the virus
• A fever heats the cells to a temperature that it cannot stand
• Abnormalities on chest X-Rays

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DEMOGRAPHICS

• Most people are between the ages of 25 and 40.
• Males are effected more then females
• Third of the worlds population had TB
• TB is the leading killer of people with HIV

PINK MEAMS THAT , THAT IS HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD HAVE TB

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HISTORY!

• In 1980 they tried to eradicate it
• In 1993 tb got itself back on the watch list for the most dangerous diseases in the US
• 3rd most deadly disease to hit North America

HISTORY!

• First place that could hold enough people to treat
• And actually cause a difference is the Waverley Hills Sanatorium
• 1918- 1 in 3 people that got tb died in 2 years

FIGHTING THE DISEASE

• It's almost impossible to defend against the killing disease
• Your immune system would recognize the virus to late to stop it
• Doctors prescribe 4 types of antibiotics to take
• The medicine won't wipe out the disease but it will contain the disease

LEUKOCYTSIS

• Neutrophilia Lymphocytosis Monocytosis Eosinophilia Basophilia
• The T cells found in different ones effect it in different ways
• Couldn't find one that treated it

TO FIND TB THEY TAKE XRAYS

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ITS NOT TREATED AND THE PATIENT DIES

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