Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease that affects the human respiratory system as a result of exposure to a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis and usually attacks bacteria in the lungs, but TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidneys, spine and brain that does not sick every person with TB bacteria as a result, there are two cases associated with tuberculosis: latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and tuberculosis can be fatal tb if not treated properly, according to a CDC report.

Symptoms of tuberculosis
Symptoms of tuberculosis depend on where tb bacteria grow in the body, tb bacteria usually grow in the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis) tuberculosis in the lungs and may cause symptoms such as severe cough lasting for 3 weeks or more, chest pain, blood cough or sputum (sputum from the depths of the lungs).

Weakness or fatigue, weight loss, no appetite, chills, fever, sweating at night, symptoms of tuberculosis in other parts of the body depend on the affected area, and people with latent TB infection do not feel sick and do not show any symptoms and cannot transmit TB to others.

Some people develop TB shortly after the infection within weeks before their immune system can fight tb bacteria and other people may get sick years later, when their immune system weakens for another reason.

In general, about 5 to 10% of infected people who do not receive treatment for latent TB infection will develop TB at some point in their lives for people whose immune systems are weak, especially those infected with HIV, the risk of tuberculosis is much higher than people with a normal immune system.

Those most at risk of tuberculosis are divided into two categories of people who have recently been infected with TB bacteria, and people with medical conditions that weaken the immune system.