| Tuberculosis is a germ infection caused by | | | | be a disease that affects only the poor and |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis which generally affects | | | | disadvantaged people. This is an old conception and it |
| the lungs, but it can also affect kidneys, lymph | | | | has been proven that anyone can get affected by |
| nodes, spine, intestinal tract and brain. | | | | tuberculosis. |
| Scientists discovered years ago tubercles in | | | | The easiest to infect are the children and people who |
| mummified bodies, this proving that TB has existed | | | | have a weakened immune system (those undergoing |
| at least since 2000BC. Also, writings of the ancient | | | | chemotherapy, those who had an organ transplant |
| Egypt, Babylonia and China mention about the | | | | and now take immunosuppressive drugs, and those |
| existence of TB. | | | | infected with HIV). |
| Tuberculosis is considered by the unadvised ones to | | | | |