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| In what year did the WHO declare TB to be public health emergency? |
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| What approximate percentage of the world's population are newly infected with TB each year? |
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| What percentage of those newly infected each year go on to develop the disease? |
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| Current estimates suggest that 30% of the world's population are infected with what? |
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| TB is particularly common in... |
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| ...South-east Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| TB levels are rising in... |
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| Is TB caused by a bacterium, or a virus? |
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| There are two species of TB bacterium, and they are... |
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| Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M.bovis. |
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| Where, in the body, is TB found? |
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| Why hasn't 30% of the world's population got TB, if 30% are infected? |
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| In many people it is inactive or controlled by their immune system. |
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| It is contained in tiny droplets of liquid that are released when the infected people cough, sneeze, laugh or talk. |
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| No, it takes contact with an infected person to over a prolonged period of time to contract it. |
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| What makes TB spread more likely? |
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-Overcrowding
-Poor ventilation
-Poor health
-Poor diet
-Homelessness
-living/working with people who have migrated from areas where TB is more common. |
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| Apart from droplets of fluid, how else is it possible to contract TB? |
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| From the milk or meat of cattle. This isn't much of a problem in developing countries. |
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