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How animals can give tuberculosis to humans
Posted 3:19 pm, December 23, 2015, by Shellie Nelson
(CNN) ? In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people were infected by tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization. Potentially fatal ? 1.5 million died from it the same year ? it is a disease known to be spread from human to human. But a subset of those contracting the disease today are getting it from infected animals.
Unbeknownst to many, tuberculosis can spread through your food, as well as the air, via infected animals. The most common culprits? Infected cattle...
How animals can give tuberculosis to humans
Posted 3:19 pm, December 23, 2015, by Shellie Nelson
(CNN) ? In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people were infected by tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization. Potentially fatal ? 1.5 million died from it the same year ? it is a disease known to be spread from human to human. But a subset of those contracting the disease today are getting it from infected animals.
Unbeknownst to many, tuberculosis can spread through your food, as well as the air, via infected animals. The most common culprits? Infected cattle...