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Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and treatable, yet still manages to kill 4000 people every day – with 700 of those children. It’s a disease caused by bacterial infection and commonly affects a person’s lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body and can cause serious illness.

While it may sound like something that is only a problem in developing nations, there are up to one million people in Australia right now with a latent form of the disease. One Australian who knows the devastating toll the disease can take is 27 yo nursing student and restaurant hostess Demi Mason from Perth.

When she was 18 she noticed she had severe flu like symptoms that quickly worsened, "the first symptoms I had were night sweats, high fever and a cough. I was admitted into hospital and secondary pneumonia was the first diagnosis doctors gave me,” she told news.com.au.

She said it took around roughly four months and many tests, for it to come back with the TB diagnosis, and the news that she might have to have part of her lung removed. .

>Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and treatable, yet still manages to kill 4000 people every day – with 700 of those children. It’s a disease caused by bacterial infection and commonly affects a person’s lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body and can cause serious illness. >While it may sound like something that is only a problem in developing nations, there are up to one million people in Australia right now with a latent form of the disease. One Australian who knows the devastating toll the disease can take is 27 yo nursing student and restaurant hostess Demi Mason from Perth. >When she was 18 she noticed she had severe flu like symptoms that quickly worsened, "the first symptoms I had were night sweats, high fever and a cough. I was admitted into hospital and secondary pneumonia was the first diagnosis doctors gave me,” she told news.com.au. >She said it took around roughly four months and many tests, for it to come back with the TB diagnosis, and the news that she might have to have part of her lung removed. [News.com.au](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/tuberculosis-australia-silent-pandemic-the-world-is-ignoring/news-story/c1a474fcd186879e8ace457b628865d8).

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The vast majority of TB sufferers in Australia are immigrants from third world shit holes. Likely where she picked it up. Probably a coal burner.

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Buruli Ulcer is caused by Mycobacterium Ulcerans, and is a chronic debilitating disease that mainly affects the skin and sometimes bone. The organism belongs to the family of bacteria that causes tuberculosis and leprosy. .

Cases of BU have been reported in southern areas of Victoria, in coastal regions of East Gippsland, on the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, and in the south eastern bayside areas of Melbourne. .

Yeah the Africans brought the disease ) with them as well and AIDS, that's how good Australia's quarantine laws and the ppl who were supposed to uphold them were.