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Episode: Tuberculosis
Description:  On this week's episode we are discussing Tuberculosis, or TB. Currently the infection has a rate of infection that is only 2.2 per 100,000 persons. TB is more common in countries where many people live in absolute poverty because people are more likely to: live and work in poorly ventilated and overcrowded conditions, which provide ideal conditions for TB bacteria to spread suffer from malnutrition and disease – particularly HIV – which reduces resistance to TB have limited access to healthcare – and just one person with untreated infectious TB can pass the illness on to 10-15 people annually. Other TB Facts...