TUBERCULOSIS

• outline

  • highly contagious and infectious
  • a bacteria that affects lungs by spreading through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, speaks
• location

  • present in all global regions but 95 % of deaths occur in LIDCs
  • 10 million cases and 1.5 million deaths globally
  • highest rates in southern and central Africa and also south east Asia
• reasons for locations

  • poverty = lack of access to healthcare
  • overcrowded living conditions = easily spread through the air