Tuberculosis
by Lexi McKay
what is tuberculosis
mycobacterium is a rod shaped bacteria also known as tuberculosis a potentially serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs
the people estimated to be infected
2 billion estimated people in 2014 were infected wiith this disease
symptoms
Coughing chest pain chills fatigue fever loss of appetite night sweats or sweating
how its spread
its spread from one person to the other in the air when somebody with the disease coughs sneezes speaks or sings
treatment and prevention
prevention would be a vaccine that isn't very effective but treatment would be antibiotics like prifitin or rifabuti
Risk groups
someone in contact with someone with the disease, people that migrate from areas with a high TB rate people that work with TB victims