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Tuberculosis (TB) is an illness related to the respiratory system. It is a disease caused by a germ mainly found in your lungs. It is a contagious disease which means you have to take extra precaution for the safety of other people. By the continuous sneezing, talking and coughing these air-borne germs can spread to [...]

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It may be a fairly uncommon disease but emphysema is one of the most common reasons for the increasing number of death rates. It is a pulmonary disease which damages your lungs due to the toxic air we breathe. Some of the common chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases are bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. This condition takes [...]

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Emphysema is a serious and debilitating lung disease. In this condition, alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs, become permanently distended with air. The lung tissues lose their elasticity, and the number of blood vessels is reduced. It is essentially a chronic disease, which [...]

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Introduction
Infectious diseases were the major cause of death worldwide as recently as the 1940s, before the development of antimicrobial drugs. In 1940, the death rate from tuberculosis was 45.9 per 100,000 population, compared to 0.5 per 100,000 in 1983. As a group, infectious diseases are currently estimated to cause 194,704 deaths yearly in the U.S. [...]

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