Transcript Tuberculosis team

Team
Tuberculosis
By The TB Team
(Rachel & Jackson)
In Period 2
Tuberculosis, and how people are
infected
• Shape: Bacilli
• Infectious
How?
• People inhale infected
particles of sputum*
• Particles go into lungs,
and spread through body
from there
*sputum: matter coughed
up by lungs
Symptoms/ how people are affected
Looks like…
• Tiredness
• Weakness
• Weight loss
• Fever
• Sweating at night
It causes…
• Coughing (usually w/
sputum)
• Chest pain
• Shortness of breath
Global Occurrences/ Statistics
( numbers are cases for every 100,000 people)
Africa: High rates (100-300 + people)
Asia: Medium rates (50-300 people)
North America: Low rates (0-100 people)
South America: Low rates (50-100 people)
Europe: Low rates (0-100 people)
Australia: Low rates ( 0-50 people)
Global Occurrences
Research Centers/Cures
• John Hopkins Research has done studies that
show Moxifloxacin* might help to fight TB
• Global Tuberculosis Institute is looking at
vaccines to protect HIV infected people
A strain of bacteria, called Mycobacterium bovis,
is similar enough to the TB strain
(Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that vaccination
with the bovine strain protects against TB.
Controlling TB
Steps for controlling TB are….
1. Hold a fundraiser to purchase vaccines and
raise TB awareness.
2. With the money, buy and send vaccinations to
the high risk countries first and lower risk
countries as soon as possible.
3. Then put people that have TB on medication
(Four antibiotics daily for six months(injected)
These steps should help control Tuberculosis.
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