• Question: what is tuberculosis?

    Asked by nicole ob to Emma on 14 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by russell.
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      Emma Roycroft answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by a micro-organism called mycobacterium tuberculosis. If you get it, you will have a type of pneumonia, drenching night sweats, severe weight loss, you will be coughing up blood and will have a cough that won’t go away. It is up there with HIV as the biggest killer due to an infection worldwide. We don’t have too much of it in Ireland though, luckily!

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