how do tb patients die?
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A million and a half people dying from TB Each year, for those people dying of pulmonary TB the following can often be true: “When TB wakes up and gets into the lungs, it eats them from the inside out, slowly diminishing their capacity, causing the chest to fill up with blood and the liquidy remains of the lungs.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that typically affects the lungs, though it can also involve other body parts. When it affects the lungs, it's called pulmonary TB. TB outside of the lung is called extrapulmonary TB.
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Just a few minutes after death, its cells collapse and release water. Then other energy-guzzling organs follow. That night, microbes eat through your gut and escape into the rest of your body. They release toxic gases that cause your body to bloat up and smell.
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Tuberculosis mostly affects adults in their most productive years. However, all age groups are at risk. Over 95% of cases and deaths are in developing countries. People who are infected with HIV are 19 times more likely to develop active TB (see TB and HIV section below).
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If they have latent TB infection, they need treatment as soon as possible to prevent them from developing active TB disease. If they have active TB disease, they must take medicine to cure the disease. Active TB disease can be prevented and cured, even in people with HIV infection.
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People with latent TB infection do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms, and cannot spread TB bacteria to others. If TB bacteria become active in the body and multiply, the person will go from having latent TB infection to being sick with TB disease.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne bacterial infection caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily affects the lungs, although other organs and tissues may be involved.
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When a person is deemed to have died of natural causes it simply means the coroner has ruled out the possibility that an outside force caused the death. So if a person has heart disease, cancer, MRSA, tuberculosis or any other ailment, and that has caused their death, they have died of natural causes.
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The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis (TB), a contagious, airborne infection that destroys body tissue. Pulmonary TB occurs when M. tuberculosis primarily attacks the lungs. However, it can spread from there to other organs.
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People ill with TB can infect up to 10-15 other people through close contact over the course of a year. Without proper treatment up to two thirds of people ill with TB will die. Since 2000, 53 million lives have been saved through effective diagnosis and treatment.
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TB can usually be completely cured by the person with TB taking a combination of TB drugs. The only time that TB may not be curable is when the person has drug resistant TB.
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People tend to stop breathing and die soon after a ventilator shuts off, though some do start breathing again on their own. If you're not getting in any fluids, you'll likely die within several days of your feeding tube removal. But you may survive for as long as 1 or 2 weeks.
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FTD is not life-threatening ─ people may live with it for years. But it can lead to an increased risk for other illnesses that can be more serious. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death, with FTD. People are also at increased risk for infections and fall-related injuries.
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In an autopsy study from Nigeria, histologic evidence of TB was found in 37.3% (25/67) of liver tissue samples from patients who died of HIV/TB co-infection complications [28]. These studies suggest that hepatic TB may be underdiagnosed and commonly associated with mortality in HIV and TB co-infected patients.
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The duration of tuberculosis from onset to cure or death is approximately 3 years and appears to be grossly similar for smear-positive and smear-negative tuberculosis.
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The bacteria can spread from the initial location in the lungs to other parts of the body through the bloodstream. Only a small number of bacteria are needed to cause an infection. Persons with latent TB infection cannot transmit TB because bacteria are not present in their saliva or sputum.