Infectious Disease : Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is most of the feared and widespread that has harassed humans. Tuberculosis is a disease that affects the lungs and other organs too. This is a very serious disease that can cause death and the worse part is that this disease travels to one person to another. In the book, Know about Tuberculosis, a boy who has tuberculosis sneezed on another boy named Kevin who did not automatically catch tuberculosis, but the terms have taken root. According to the book, Know about Tuberculosis, “In the United States, about ten to fifteen million people are infected with this disease, but only ten percent of people are infected; however doctors assume that the battle against tuberculosis is increasing around the world.” Tuberculosis is among the major concerns for the World Health Organization due to its contagious nature.

(cdc.gov) Individuals with latent TB will have no symptoms of active disease and are not contagious. However, these same individuals can develop tuberculosis if they become immunocompromised, live in poverty, have poor nutrition or have other comorbidities. (Maurer & Smith, 2013)

Tuberculosis is a potentially lethal, contagious disease, mainly caused by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb. This

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2014, 9.6 million Americans were infected with the Tuberculosis (TB) disease. Over the years many programs and initiatives have been implemented to decrease the occurrences of TB disease in America. As long individuals are educated on the prevention of tuberculosis fatal complications can be prevented through early treatment. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the description of Tuberculosis and the demographic of interest, determinants of health and how determinants contribute to the development of Tuberculosis, epidemiologic triangle, role of the community health nurse, and the World Health Organization that works to address

The purpose of this paper is to discuss tuberculosis (TB), provide a clinical description, and discuss the determinants of health in relation to TB and the role and tasks of the community health nurse in regards to the disease.

2TUBERCULOSISTuberculosis (TB) is spread by a person who is infected by the bacterial infection the water droplets can spread through the body. An infectious disease many organisms that live in the body that can be spread person to person. TB is a rare infectious disease. The younger generation has become more at risk in upcoming countries.The first recorded occurrence of TB was in 1882. TB was first discovered by a physician and scientist, Robert Koch. March 12, 1882 he discovered mycobacterium tuberculosis. A few of the most common symptoms of TB are loss of energy, poor appetite, loss of energy, fever, productive cough,

When a person has latent TB this indicates that they have acquired the TB germ but do not

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial infection that affects millions of people globally. It is a contagious disease that is spread through the air, and it usually affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person through droplets from the respiratory tract of those who are already infected with the disease. Some who are infected with the bacteria that causes TB often exhibit no symptoms, because their immune systems stop the bacteria from growing and multiplying. Those with compromised immune systems are more susceptible to developing the full blown disease which can cause symptoms that include coughing, spitting blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, and fever. Tuberculosis can be treated with a six to nine month course of a combination of antibiotics. If left untreated, TB will spread and can be fatal.

During the interview with healthcare provider Mrs. Tonya Simpson, she when in great detail explaining that Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is a disease that affects the lungs and can be transmitted from person to person by coughing, face-to- face conversing, sneezing, and even breathing the same air of an infected person can spread the disease. A profuse amount of people have TB, but the bacteria is not active, which prevents them from being contagious (T. Simpson, personal communication, March 25, 2015). It is only when the disease is presented to be active that it can be transmitted. Seniors and children have a greater risk to be infected with Tuberculosis due to their weak immune systems.

Tuberculosis is not only an infectious disease; this disease also raises questions in regards to social awareness on the individual level on how it can affect each and every community around the world so differently. TB, this infectious disease, is not only a medical condition that needs to be treated yet it brings psychological approaches. Psychological approaches that include finding an improved management method so that the community affected is able to accept the issues and react to them. Finding the social factors by developing creative approaches within the complex society by utilizing the good intentions and interactions within the society. By properly approaching the disease to

The most common way of getting Tuberculosis is by breathing in respiratory droplets from the air that have been accumulated there by the process of another infected person coughing, sneezing, and or talking, ext., ext. The symptoms of Tuberculosis in the lungs is a cough, sputum, bleeding of the lungs, fever, night sweats, loss of weight, and weakness. TB tends to attack places with poor Public Health Services, and crowded living conditions as well as areas where it is disrupted by both natural and unnatural disasters (like war or flood). In the year is 1993 the W.H.O. declared TB Global Health Emergency.

Tuberculosis can infect anywhere in the body, but it infects the lungs most commonly, which is known as the pulmonary tuberculosis [4]. Tuberculosis can be latent when infected, and developed into active TB disease. People with latent TB (about 33.3% of the world population) will not have any symptoms and will not transmit the disease to other people. However, they are at a 10% risk that it will develop into active TB over their lifetime. The symptoms include cough, fever, fatigue, chills, night sweat, weight loss, etc. TB is transmitted through air by coughing, spitting, speaking, and sneezing, etc. [3][4]. A person can be infected by inhaling just a few of the bacterium [3].

years because the disease is inactive. Latent TB is when you have TB but it is not active and you can’t spread it to anyone. You can’t spread the disease because your body is very too busy fighting to prevent the disease from becoming active in the immune system. Active TB is when you are having symptoms you can infect others around you now that the TB bacilli have grown into the lungs.

Tuberculosis, often referred to as TB is one of the world’s oldest infections. It is a chronic, airborne, highly contagious infection, which is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is treatable and preventable, but yet causes increasing morbidity and mortality (Battle, 2009,). It re-emerged in the mid-1980s as a major public health concern. Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death globally, especially in low and middle income countries. Tuberculosis has been implicated as comorbidity in other diseases like HIV/AIDS and diabetes. It is numbered among the top fifteen diseases by World Health Organization and the sixth Millennium Development Goal. Robert Koch, one of the fathers of Microbiology, first discovered M. tuberculosis as the causative agent of tuberculosis in 1882 (Adams & Koch, 2010). Tuberculosis is the most common bacterial infection worldwide.

When one inhales air coughed out by TB patients, the infection is referred to as primary tuberculosis. In most instances, most people get infected with primary tuberculosis, but since its severity is minimal, there are higher chances of recovery (CDC 17). The infection rate of primary tuberculosis depends on the strength of an individual’s immune system.