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Tuberculosis Fact Sheet. - Weekly Epidemiological Record, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 7, Health, 1522-323X; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Tuberculosis Fact Sheet, March 26, 2004; pp. 125.

"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." (WEEKLY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RECORD) This article describes how TB spreads and explains its connection to the HIV virus.

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