Post by Dr. Nneka Blessing 🎗️ (@Nkgold)

Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness caused by a bacterial infection. It commonly affects your lungs, but it can also affect other areas of your body like your spine, brain or kidneys.Not everyone who’s infected with TB gets sick. If you’re infected but have no symptoms, it’s called inactive tuberculosis, or latent TB. TB is dormant (sleeping) inside your body. As many as 13 million people in the U.S. have latent TB. Some people can have a latent TB infection for a lifetime, without ever developing

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