Tuberculosis - Statistics & Facts Choose a region: Worldwide Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, but can potentially spread to other areas of the body, including the brain and spine. There are two types of TB, latent TB and active TB. With latent...
J. Arthur Myers on "Recent Facts of Transmission of Tuberculosis" in The Journal, August 1. I am urged to comment because the views expressed in Dr. Myers' paper may be accepted by the public and thus make it more difficult to recruit nursing staffs for tuberculosis hospitals. This ...
Robert Koch (1843-1910) was a German scientist who identified the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905. Before he died, Koch established 4 criteria to identify thecausativeagent of a disease. These criteria (“Koch’s postulates...
Fact: Tuberculosis can be contracted by anyone, although certain populations such as immigrants,people with reduced immunity, elderly, homeless, and others are at a greater risk. Individuals into contact with these people are also at risk. Myth: Tuberculosis infection leads to disease Fact: Not ev...
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One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, believed that masturbation was the cause of poor eyesight, epilepsy, poor memory, and tuberculosis. Women especially would become feeble minded and more susceptible to evil if they masturbated.[4] ...
Excessive masturbation and am under treatment of chronical disorder Tuberculosis so is it not good for health? Dr. Rohan Jaju Urologist, Mumbai Masturbating will not cause the or will affect the course of tb. Dr. Venkat Raghav General Physician, Bangalore hey, masturbation has nothing to do wit...
A painful cancer fact is that this disease causes more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined. Approximately 70% of cancer deaths occur to those of low and middle incomes. In the United States, cancer is listed as the cause in close to 1/4 of all deaths and is the leading...