Hai-Online.com – tuberculosis (TBC) is still one of the infectious diseases that need special attention in Indonesia. Diseases caused by bacterial infections Mycobacterium tuberculosis this can infect anyone, both the elderly, adults, and children.
Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to transmit and the symptoms of TB disease. Especially in the midst of a pandemic Covid-19public attention, including young people, tends to focus on the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19.
Even though, virus TB is no less dangerous. Reporting from the official website of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), TB has killed about 1 billion people in the last two centuries and there are an estimated 104 million new TB cases worldwide.
TB transmission also has a similar scheme to Covid-19. Still quoted from the Ministry of Health, TB can be transmitted through saliva or saliva droplet from people with tuberculosis when sneezing and coughing. bacteria on droplet It can also survive in the air.
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Likewise with the symptoms of TB, generally almost the same as Covid-19, which has a cough with fever. However, according to the page Covid19.go.idthere are several other symptoms that distinguish the two diseases.
When exposed to Covid-19, the symptoms generally include fever, headache, dry cough that turns into a cough with phlegm, sore throat, and shortness of breath. When getting the right treatment, the various symptoms above will improve after 14 days.
Meanwhile, in the case of tuberculosis, the cough did not subside even though it had passed 14 days. In addition to having a fever, cough can also be mixed with blood.
Along with these complaints, people with TB also often experience shortness of breath, weight loss, difficulty sleeping, and night sweats.
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