Tuberculosis
noun
A serious infectious disease that affects the lungs and other parts of the body.
She was diagnosed with tuberculosis after months of persistent coughing.
Often appears as...
- tuberculosis infection
- tuberculosis vaccine
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Technical
noun
A serious infectious disease that affects the lungs and other parts of the body.
She was diagnosed with tuberculosis after months of persistent coughing.
Often appears as...
- tuberculosis infection
- tuberculosis vaccine
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Serious Illness
Tuberculosis is a severe health condition, often implying a long and serious struggle.
Her fight against tuberculosis was challenging but successful.
Pro Tip 2/3Contagious Nature
Remember, tuberculosis is an infectious disease; it can spread among people if not controlled.
Due to his tuberculosis, he had to remain isolated to prevent contagion.
Pro Tip 3/3Lungs Focus
While TB can affect other body parts, it primarily attacks the lungs, suggesting breath-related symptoms.
The primary symptom of her tuberculosis was difficulty in breathing.
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Andreas Raptopoulos: No...
reach them with better medication. It would give us an unfair advantage against battling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other epidemics. Over time, we would hope it would become a new platform for economic transactions, lifting millions of people out of poverty. In the developed world and the emerging world,
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Getting a Whale Breath...
will be important for Karina's research thank you perfect thanks very good okay that was a good sample and what is it that you're specifically looking for with these micro bacteria for example the agent that can cause tuberculosis him often that's a very common germ that
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Doesn't everyone deserve...
and he had a very difficult form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. All of the gurus in the world, the global health gurus, said it is not cost-effective to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. It's too complicated. It's too expensive. You just can't do it. It can't be done.
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Mark Kendall: Demo: A...
But there's another angle to this as well -- you can take vaccines that currently don't work and get them over that line and get them protective. And certainly in the world of vaccines that can be important. Let's consider the big HIV, malaria, tuberculosis.
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
uh they they they lasted for a long period of time so do we just have to accept that we have to just deal with the novel coronavirus for quite a while and and make peace with that in the past certainly people did um tuberculosis killed one in seven
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What can you learn from...
DNA analysis is even possible in some relatively well-preserved ancient remains. That's helping us understand how diseases like tuberculosis have evolved over the centuries so we can build better treatments for people today.
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Wiring a web for global...
She was an AIDS orphan being handed across different extended families to be cared for. She herself was suffering from HIV; she was suffering from tuberculosis. I met her in a field, she was ragged, she had no shoes.
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When Cities Were...
tuberculosis research life generally was getting better and better for Americans knowing that germs cause disease was a significant component of that
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How I taught rats to...
lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters
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The impact of Simón...
he was his his life was virtually over his tuberculosis that had started at the age
Video examples
Andreas Raptopoulos: No...
reach them with better medication. It would give us an unfair advantage against battling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other epidemics. Over time, we would hope it would become a new platform for economic transactions, lifting millions of people out of poverty. In the developed world and the emerging world,
Video examples
Getting a Whale Breath...
will be important for Karina's research thank you perfect thanks very good okay that was a good sample and what is it that you're specifically looking for with these micro bacteria for example the agent that can cause tuberculosis him often that's a very common germ that
Video examples
Doesn't everyone deserve...
and he had a very difficult form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. All of the gurus in the world, the global health gurus, said it is not cost-effective to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. It's too complicated. It's too expensive. You just can't do it. It can't be done.
Video examples
Mark Kendall: Demo: A...
But there's another angle to this as well -- you can take vaccines that currently don't work and get them over that line and get them protective. And certainly in the world of vaccines that can be important. Let's consider the big HIV, malaria, tuberculosis.
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
uh they they they lasted for a long period of time so do we just have to accept that we have to just deal with the novel coronavirus for quite a while and and make peace with that in the past certainly people did um tuberculosis killed one in seven
Video examples
What can you learn from...
DNA analysis is even possible in some relatively well-preserved ancient remains. That's helping us understand how diseases like tuberculosis have evolved over the centuries so we can build better treatments for people today.
Video examples
Wiring a web for global...
She was an AIDS orphan being handed across different extended families to be cared for. She herself was suffering from HIV; she was suffering from tuberculosis. I met her in a field, she was ragged, she had no shoes.
Video examples
When Cities Were...
tuberculosis research life generally was getting better and better for Americans knowing that germs cause disease was a significant component of that
Video examples
How I taught rats to...
lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
he was his his life was virtually over his tuberculosis that had started at the age
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Paul Farmer
American Educator
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
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Daniel Akaka
American Politician
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
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Luis Alberto Urrea
Mexican Poet
It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.
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Paul Gosar
American Politician
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.
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Dinah Sheridan
English Actress
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
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Thiago Silva
Brazilian Athlete
I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.
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Michael York
British Actor
No one has developed active tuberculosis.
Quote examples
Paul Farmer
American Educator
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Quote examples
Daniel Akaka
American Politician
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
Quote examples
Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
Quote examples
Luis Alberto Urrea
Mexican Poet
It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.
Quote examples
Paul Gosar
American Politician
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.
Quote examples
Simone Weil
French Philosopher
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Quote examples
Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.
Quote examples
Dinah Sheridan
English Actress
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
Quote examples
Thiago Silva
Brazilian Athlete
I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.
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Michael York
British Actor
No one has developed active tuberculosis.
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