The Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the infection by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
This disease has been around since the Neolithic times.
The cure was recently developed and has ever since saved many lives across the globe.
The bacteria causing the disease were first identified in the year 1882 by Robert Koch.
He described them under the microscope as rod-shaped germs/ bacilli.
The Tuberculosis can also afflict the cattle only that it is caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
The bacteria from infected cattle can be transmitted via the taking of the infected milk.
The bacteria causing Tuberculosis can be spread from one person to the next via particles in the air.
However, it is not a guarantee that one will get infected after the inhalation.
The infection chances are determined by ones immune system whether it can be able to destroy the bacteria before it enters the body.
Some people develop latent infection where they carry the bacteria but will neither present the symptoms and neither will they be contagious.
Most of the people with the bacteria do not present the symptoms of Tuberculosis.
The most common symptoms include weight loss, fatigue, fever, and labored breathing, chills, sweating at night as well as the loss of ones appetite.
Other symptoms are specific to the lings and leads to coughing that can go up to three weeks or more.
The cough contains blood; there are chest pains as well as pains when breathing.
The Tuberculosis diagnosis comes after the combination of skin, imaging and blood tests.
The good news is that there is cure for this condition.