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Deadly infection that can be transmitted by breathing

2024-03-13 12:43:00, Shëndeti CNA
Deadly infection that can be transmitted by breathing
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As tuberculosis has re-emerged in England, new research has revealed that catching the disease may be easier than we once thought.

Dutch scientists now believe that even people who show no signs of the disease can pass the killer bug.

Until now, health care experts thought that tuberculosis germs were transmitted through coughing, laughing or talking, singing or sneezing.

But a new study has found that four out of five people who test positive for the killer virus do not suffer from a cough, previously thought to be a key symptom of tuberculosis.

However, even those who do not have a cough carry the infectious disease in their saliva, which can be released into the air when someone speaks or breathes, they found.

That means people can catch the infection just by breathing near someone who has the bug but isn't showing any obvious signs, they said.

The latest research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, analyzed data on more than 600,000 people in 12 countries across Africa and Asia, some of whom had tuberculosis.

They found that 82.8 percent of those with the disease did not have a persistent cough and 62.5 percent had no cough at all./ CNA 

 





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