Should you be worried about asymptomatic TB?

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More than half of people in South Africa who are sick with TB may not realise it because they don’t have any of the symptoms often linked with the disease. | via Bhekisisa_MG

, now recommend that people who may have a high risk of getting TB , should get chest X-rays and have their sputum tested during their regular clinic visits.

This project has already started around the country, so it’s possible that people could be diagnosed with asymptomatic TB through these efforts. that they take a six-month course of antibiotics to clear up the infection. Wong says that researchers want to find out whether people with asymptomatic TB might have a milder form of TB. If that’s the case, then perhaps they could take a shorter course of TB treatment to clear the infection. That way, they won’t have to deal with the side effects for so long, and can get back to their daily lives quicker.

This new information would imply that people with asymptomatic TB could indeed be passing the bug on to othersIn South Africa, the preventive treatment against TB available in most public sector clinics is calledIn people who are infected with both HIV and TB, as in South Africa, the medicine stops people from developing full-blown TB disease in

 

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Bhekisisa_MG ......and the deaths of TB still exceeded covid during the fake pandemic.

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