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Controlling the spread of tuberculosis infection can prevent tuberculous spondylitis and arthritis. Patients who have a positive PPD test (but not active tuberculosis) may decrease their risk by properly taking medicines to prevent tuberculosis. To effectively treat tuberculosis, patients must take their medications exactly as prescribed. [2]
The Story of John M'Neil is Britain's first public health education film, produced in 1911 by Dr Halliday Sutherland. [1] It is a silent film which dramatises a Scottish family living in slum housing and shows how tuberculosis was spread between family members, as well as how it was treated.
Through its effect on the world's population and major artists in various fields, tuberculosis has appeared in many forms in human culture. The disease was for centuries associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was known as "the romantic disease". [ 2 ]
Tuberculosis spreads through the air from one person to another. Someone with an active infection can put the germs into the air when they cough, speak, or sing. Those germs can hang out in the ...
In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack.. The 2015 Ron Howard film was based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 ...
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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 ]
Rojas had tuberculosis when he painted this. Here he depicts the social aspect of the disease, and its relation with living conditions at the close of the 19th century. The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) through to the vaccines and treatments methods developed to contain and mitigate its impact.