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Show Test Provides Data On Tuberculosis What's your TB IQ? It means Tuberculosis Intelligence Quotient. Quo-tient. That is, how much do you know about TB? Remember, to keep well we must kepe well informed. in-formed. Here are nine statements about tuberculosis. Are they true or false? 1. Tuberculosis is inherited. 2. People who eat properly and live in decent houses don't get TB. 3. People who have TB usually usual-ly feel sick. 4. A hot, dry climate is best for people who have TB. 5. Once a person has had TB i . . i. . he's immune to further attacks. 6. About 250,000 Americans have active TB today. 7. More women than men come down with TB. 8. TB can strike any part of the body. 9. Everyone can be cured of TB today. ' Now check your answers. 1. False. TB is picked up from someone else who has it. 2. False. Good food and housing hous-ing help protect against TB but they are by no means certain insurance against it. Whether or not you get TB depends on other factors as well. 3. False. When a person first becomes ill with TB, he may feel perfectly well. This is the stage of the disease when it is most easily cured. 4. False. Climate has absolutely absolute-ly nothing to do with TB. 5. False. A person who has been successfully treated for TB may have a relapse and become ill again. 6. True. But 100,000 of them may not know they have TB. 7. False. Twice as many men as women have TB. 8. True. Tuberculosis of the lungs is most common, but TB of the bone or kidney or stomach is not infrequent. 9. False. When TB is not discovered dis-covered until it is in a very advanced ad-vanced stage, cure may be impossible. im-possible. Last year 12,000 died of TB. |