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The Return of Tuberculosis

The Return of Tuberculosis. What are our aims?. By Hardeep Nota and Shaleen Khan. What is Tuberculosis?. It mostly often strikes: children and elderly adults It kills more than 2 million people per year. Tuberculosis is also known as TB

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The Return of Tuberculosis

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  1. The Return of Tuberculosis What are our aims? By Hardeep Nota and Shaleen Khan

  2. What is Tuberculosis? • It mostly often strikes: children and elderly adults • It kills more than 2 million people per year. • Tuberculosis is also known as TB • It’s a contagious bacterial infection spread through the air What are the symptoms? TB in the lungs: • a bad cough that lasts longer than 2 weeks • pain in the chest • coughing up blood Other symptoms of TB: • weakness • weight loss • no appetite • chills • fever • sweating at night

  3. How can you get tested? • A TB skin test is the only way to find out if you have TB infection. • You should get tested for TB if: • You have spent time with a person with infectious TB • You have HIV infection or another condition that puts you at high risk for TB disease What happens to your lungs?

  4. During the summer school we designed our project pages, and this is what we have done so far…

  5. Thank you for watching our presentation, we hope you enjoyed it and learnt a little more on Tuberculosis. By Hardeep and Shaleen

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