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News & Events
2009-01-01
Westcare's Newsletter is online
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2008-11-02
2009 ANNUAL REPORT
To read this years annual report click here. For all feedback on the report please email PR & Marketing Manager Tanya McDonald
Tuberculosis
Did you know...
- Someone in the world is infected with TB bacteria every second
- 2 million people worldwide died from TB in 2002
- Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacteria
- 5-10% of people who are infected with TB bacteria (but who are not infected with HIV) become sick or infectious at some time during their life
- TB is a leading cause of death among people who are HIV-positive. It accounts for about 13% of AIDS deaths worldwide
What is it?
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease and like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious and when infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB bacteria into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected.
Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. However people infected with TB bacteria will not necessarily become sick with the disease.
The immune system "walls off" the TB bacteria which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater.
For further information see the World Health Organisation Tuberculosis website.
