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Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis . [ 1 ] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [ 1 ]
Active tuberculosis can be contagious while latent tuberculosis is not, and it is therefore not possible to get TB from someone with latent tuberculosis. The main risk is that approximately 10% of these people (5% in the first two years after infection and 0.1% per year thereafter) will go on to develop active tuberculosis.
For example, in A. J. Cronin's best-known novel, The Citadel (1937), made into a 1938 film of the same name by King Vidor, the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Andrew Manson, is dedicated to treating Welsh miners suffering from tuberculosis. He later assists a tuberculosis specialist in successfully performing a pneumothorax on a girl who is dying ...
A current Tacoma case is a reminder of what legal reach health officials have to encourage treatment.
Houseflies have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 days, not 24 hours. [84] However, members of one species of mayfly have an adult lifespan of as little as 5 minutes. [85] The daddy longlegs spider is not the most venomous spider in the world.
The line about the mailroom worker being 26 years old has been given new life with viral posts online and memes joking about the plot point, especially during the holiday season. "I can believe in ...
Wall Street has been making headlines for much of this year, often for all the wrong reasons. Reports of 100-hour work weeks, stress, anxiety, panic attacks, lack of sleep, prescription meds, and ...
A disease lasting for a few hours, where the affected person can only say "Good day, good day" despite attempts to say other words. Sune gets the disease [ 4 ] [ 5 ] but is later cured by his schoolteacher Ulla-Lena Frid, who cures it with "ordinary simple curiosity" (Swedish: " vanlig enkel nyfikenhet ").