"Pandemic" only raging in Australia
Yeah...I don't think that word means what the author thinks it means...
>"Pandemic"
>only raging in Australia
Yeah...I don't think that word means what the author thinks it means...
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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