TB
tuberculosis
TRANSLATION
TB = die Tuberkulose --- GOOGLE INDEX TB (tuberculosis): approximately 4,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The North West of England still witnesses about 700 TB cases every year. But being diagnosed with TB is no longer seen as the death sentence it once was.
(BBC News)
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Swaziland battles twin plagues of HIV, TB
(AFP News Service - Headline)
(BBC News)
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Swaziland battles twin plagues of HIV, TB
(AFP News Service - Headline)
Did you
know?
TB
noun
- abbreviation for tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected.
Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. But people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater.
- Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
- One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.
(from the World Health Organization)
HYPOTHETCIAL QUESTION:
A noted professor of medicine at the University of California once presented his students with a curious hypothetical question:
"Here's the family history: The father has syphilis, the mother tuberculosis. They have already had four children. The first is blind. The second died. The third is deaf. And the fourth also has tuberculosis.
"Now the mother is pregnant again and the parents have come to you for advice. They are willing to have an abortion if you think they should. What do you say?"
After a brief discussion, the students were broken into small groups and instructed to return with a decision. Each group recommended an abortion.
"Congratulations," the professor remarked, surveying the class. "You have just taken the life of Beethoven."
(Source: Anecdotage.com)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Without modern medicine, TB would be claiming many more human lives."
noun
- abbreviation for tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected.
Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. But people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater.
- Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
- One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.
(from the World Health Organization)
HYPOTHETCIAL QUESTION:
A noted professor of medicine at the University of California once presented his students with a curious hypothetical question:
"Here's the family history: The father has syphilis, the mother tuberculosis. They have already had four children. The first is blind. The second died. The third is deaf. And the fourth also has tuberculosis.
"Now the mother is pregnant again and the parents have come to you for advice. They are willing to have an abortion if you think they should. What do you say?"
After a brief discussion, the students were broken into small groups and instructed to return with a decision. Each group recommended an abortion.
"Congratulations," the professor remarked, surveying the class. "You have just taken the life of Beethoven."
(Source: Anecdotage.com)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Without modern medicine, TB would be claiming many more human lives."
