Tuberculosis

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• Tuberculosis

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• The scientific name of the disease is
  Mycobacterium tuberculosis , and the common name
  is Tuberculosis.
• The type of organism or pathogen that causes
  tuberculosis is bacterial.
• Tuberculosis can be caused by the TB bacteria,
  exploits the white blood cell witch is called
  macrophage, this causes the bacteria to spill
  into your lungs.
• The chronic effects is that the disease can
  cause permanent lung damage, also could spread to
  other areas and could end up in life threatening
  situations.
• Cycle When the bacteria infects the white blood
  cell, it causes the bacteria to spread and
  infected other areas of the body and it takes
  over your lungs and you could die.

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Symptoms

• TB mainly affects your lungs (pulmonary
  tuberculosis), and coughing is often the only
  indication of infection initially. Signs and
  symptoms of active pulmonary TB include
• A cough lasting three or more weeks that may
  produce discolored or bloody sputum
• Unintended weight loss
• Fatigue
• Slight fever
• Night sweats
• Chills
• Loss of appetite
• Pain with breathing or coughing (pleurisy)
• Tuberculosis also can targ3et almost any part of
  your body, including your joints, bones, urinary
  tract, central nervous system, muscles, bone
  marrow and lymphatic system.

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Treatments and or Cures

• In most cases, TB disease can be cured with
  anti-TB drugs. To be effective, the drugs must be
  taken exactly as prescribed. Treatment usually
  involves a combination of several different
  drugs. Because TB bacteria die very slowly,
  anti-TB drugs must be taken for 6 months or
  longer.
• Persons with TB disease must continue to take
  their medicine until all the bacteria are killed,
  even if the symptoms of disease go away and they
  start to feel better. Not completing the full TB
  treatment can be very dangerous. The disease will
  last longer, the person can continue to spread
  the disease to others, and the rate of
  transmission will increase. Also, the TB bacteria
  can become resistant to the drugs being used to
  kill them.

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Curiosity

• Folklore
• Before the Industrial Revolution, tuberculosis
  may sometimes have been regarded as vampirism.
  When one member of a family died from it, the
  other members that were infected would lose their
  health slowly. People believed that this was
  caused by the original victim draining the life
  from the other family members. Furthermore,
  people who had TB exhibited symptoms similar to
  what people considered to be vampire traits.
  People with TB often have symptoms such as red,
  swollen eyes (which also creates a sensitivity to
  bright light), pale skin and coughing blood,
  suggesting the idea that the only way for the
  afflicted to replenish this loss of blood was by
  sucking blood. Another folk belief attributed it
  to being forced, nightly, to attend fairy revels,
  so that the victim wasted away owing to lack of
  rest this belief was commonest when a strong
  connection was seen between the fairies and the
  dead. Similarly, but less commonly, it was
  attributed to the victims being "hagridden"being
  transformed into horses by witches (hags) to
  travel to their nightly meetings, again resulting
  in a lack of rest.

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Pictures

• X-ray of a patient with tuberculosis

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• Tuberculosis of Skin