A short description of this disease.

1. TUBERCULOSIS
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2. TUBERCULOSIS
• It is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that affects the
lungs. It is curable and preventable.
• It is transmitted from person to person through the air. When a tuberculosis
patient coughs, sneezes or spits, tubercle bacilli expelled into the air. Just a
person inhale a few bacilli to become infected.

3. symptoms:
Weakness or fatigue.
o Weight loss.
o Lack of appetite.
o Shaking chills.
o Fever.
o Night sweats.
o Chest pain.
• It administering a combination
of four antimicrobial drugs,
most tuberculosis patients can
be cured when medicines are
delivered and successfully
taken for 6 months.