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Questions Related to health and diseases
Which of the following is/are correct regarding tuberculosis?
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It commonly affects the lungs.
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Bacteria releases tuberculin toxin.
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Patient's sputum contains blood.
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All of the above.
Vaccines are available for which of the following disease?
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Tuberculosis
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Brain tumor
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Sickle cell anaemia
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Common cold
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is commonly used against tuberculosis. It is normally given to children as it has been shown to provide very good protection against the disseminated forms of TB in children, including TB meningitis. The other diseases do not have any vaccines yet.
Which of the following are symptoms of TB?
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Coughing
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Fever
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Loss of appetite
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All of the above
Although your body may harbour the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, your immune system usually can prevent you from becoming sick. Several signs and symptoms of active TB include: coughing that lasts three or more weeks, coughing up blood, chest pain, or pain with breathing or coughing, unintentional weight loss, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite etc.
How can you prevent from acquiring Tuberculosis?
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Not eating food with others
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Using face masks
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Going to TB prone regions
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All of the above
Tuberculosis is a primarily an airborne disease. The causative agent for the disease is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria are spread from person to person in tiny microscopic droplets through the air.
Tuberculosis can affect which parts of the body apart from lungs?
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Kidneys
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Spine
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Both A and B
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None of the above
Tuberculosis can also affect other parts of your body, including your kidneys, spine or brain. When TB occurs outside your lungs, signs and symptoms vary according to the organs involved. For example- tuberculosis of the spine may give you back pain and tuberculosis in your kidneys might cause blood in your urine.
Which of the following is not a symptom of tuberculosis?
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Increase in body weight and tiredness.
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More than two weeks of coughing bouts.
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Thick yellowish green sputum produced.
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An X-ray shows dark spots in the lungs.
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The symptoms are a loss of the body weight, fatigue, there is a cough for more than two weeks with mucus and blood, the color of the sputum is yellowish or green. The X-ray shows spots in the lungs due to the infection.
Night sweat is associated with which of the following diseases?
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Typhoid
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Tuberculosis
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Tetanus
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None of the above
Symptoms of active Tuberculosis can depend on what part of the body has been infected. The symptoms include cough lasting 3 weeks or more, pain in the chest area, a cough that brings blood or mucus, chills, fever, night sweats, loss of appetite, weight loss, and fatigue. Tuberculosis can also affect a person's brain, bones, kidneys, or spine.
Loss of body weight, persistent cough with blood and sputum of yellowish- green colour are the symptoms of
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Tuberculosis.
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Typhoid.
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Hepatitis-B.
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Cholera.
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculae. The symptoms include loss of body weight, cough with mucus and blood and the color of the sputum turns to yellowish or green. The disease is transmitted through the air droplets while sneezing and coughing.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis can attack on
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Lungs.
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Kidney.
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Bone.
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All of the above.
The first symptom of active TB develops about .......... after infection.
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6-8 weeks
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1 week
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1 month
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6-8 days