| ercle bacillus or Mycobacteria tuberculosis causes | | | | violet radiation and transmission rarely occurs |
| tuberculosis, it can be found everywhere around us, | | | | out-of-doors in daylight. Mortality from tuberculosis |
| tapwarer, grass, mud, hay, rubber tubing. Usualy they | | | | had an increased rate among immigrants from the |
| do not cause human infection, when they do there | | | | Indian subcontinent and Irish. |
| are other factors that influence and create proper | | | | The soil is everything; the germ is nothing is what |
| conditions such as: poor ventilation, dusty | | | | Louis Pasteur said on his deathbed refering to |
| atmosphere, poor and low protein diet, migration, | | | | Mycobacteria tuberculosis and other bacterias. Robert |
| overcrowding, grief. | | | | Koch, a German scientist was the one to discover |
| Tuberculosis affects especially people with uprooted | | | | the tubercule bacillus. That time tuberculosis was a |
| families, with poor economic conditions and bad or | | | | growing problem, a large part of the population was |
| hard working in inproper conditions,in shoddy | | | | infected and annual deaths were inregistrated. |
| accomodation. Tuberculosis was described among city | | | | Epidemic pandemies were observed during that |
| builders and devastated Europe, during the era of | | | | period. And that’s why it was absolutely |
| mass production, slum cities and subsistence wages. | | | | imperios to develop a vaccine and antituberculous |
| Those who were infected with tuberculosis and | | | | drugs. |
| eventually died of it were immigrants, industrial | | | | Although by that time the introduction of |
| workers and the homeless . Rich, well-nourished | | | | antituberculous drugs and BCG was not of great help, |
| people became infected too, but as in all times they | | | | the rate of death and infections was constant in |
| could afford medical care and treatments, so they | | | | spite of those important discoveries. Only after a |
| were cured. Famous artists, musicians and poets | | | | while, with the development of the cities |
| succumbed to tuberculosis, because they | | | | infrastructure and technologies and possibilities of |
| weren’t paying proper attention to the | | | | cleaning and desinfection there were observed the |
| disease and to its therapy. | | | | decrease of tuberculous mortality, in US. and United |
| Overwork, poor diet and damp, airless accomodation | | | | Kingdom. Other countries and continents such as: |
| had increased importance in developing tuberculosis. | | | | Philippines, Asia, Greece continued to have high rates |
| The bacteria may be spread by coughing, sneezing | | | | of tuberculosis. |
| and talking, living in the same house with a person | | | | Tuberculosis affects many people every year, |
| with tuberculosis means real chances of developing | | | | worldwide, in countries with a higher prevalence of |
| the disease. Tuberculosis is not spread by clothes or | | | | HIVcases tuberculosis affects more people. |
| bedding. Mycobacteria are highly susceptible to ultra | | | | |