Tuberculosis<\/a>, being a bacterial infection, can cause inflammation of the facial nerve and weakening of the muscles. TB is spread when someone with the bacteria coughs, sneezes laughs, spits or otherwise transfers the disease. The bacteria is an airborne pathogen, meaning it can spread from person to person through the air. It is contagious but is not easy to catch. If it were, it would be one of the worst global emergencies as an infected person can typically spread the bacteria to 10 or 15 people. You can be infected without showing any symptoms, in which case you have latent TB.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTB affects the lungs and causes a horrible, wheezing cough that lingers. TB is the second biggest killer of its kind globally, that meaning the kind of single bacterial agent that spreads through infection. Vaccines are effective but in some countries, the disease has developed to such an extent that it has become drug-resistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n
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