Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. About 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kills about half of those affected. The classic symptoms of active TB are a chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. It was historically called consumption due to the weight loss. Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms.Tuberculosis …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English
“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …
000 Japanese Canadian women, chil- dren and tuberculosis patients were unjustly detained here under …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English
Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.
and third, by the framing and deployment of tuberculosis control efforts in Alberta, which marginalized … (in fact, aggressively excluded) Indigenous tuberculosis patients in particular. This chapter contributes … sterilization under the Sexual Sterilization Act. Tuberculosis and Modes of Exclusion Our final example of … the paradigms of inclu- sion and exclusion is tuberculosis. As historian Katherine McCuaig notes, many … of these mobilizing efforts, thus pla- cing tuberculosis at the intersection of public health, public …
SPCW: Social Planning Council of Winnipeg · 19 September 2024 English
A Brief History Social Planning Council of Winnipeg 1919 to 2024 The origin of the Social Planning Council (SPCW) For example, a spirit of cooperation among reflects the diverse and …
important economic Community Workers Club, Anti-Tuberculosis Society, features. However, with the diversity …
Office of the Ombudsperson, Province of British Columbia · 18 September 2024 English
Our office is located on the traditional lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) People and ancestors and our work extends across the traditional territories of the First Nations peoples within what …
premier apologized in the legislative assembly, tuberculosis sanatorium in New Denver with many survivors …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 17 September 2024 English
Northern Ontario can be understood as a hinterland-colonial region. This book offers an overview and statistical reference source for Northern Ontario on population, employment, and urban concentration since 1871.
years of contact, diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, infuenza, scarlet fever and measles reduced … IN HISTORICAL STATISTICS, 1871-2021 case of tuberculosis, Hoeppner and Marciniuk (2000) have questioned … an “imported disease,” arguing that endemic tuberculosis was “almost certainly” present among Indigenous …
ITK: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami · 17 September 2024 English
Layout 1 2023.2024 A N N U A L R E P O R T About Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is the national representative organization for 70,000 …
Tapiriit Kanatami 2023.2024 Annual Report Inuit Tuberculosis National Inuit Elimination Framework Strategy … resources and supports required to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat by 2030 • Pursue legislative …
McMaster Health Forum · 16 September 2024 English
COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 13.2c - appendices: Effectiveness of quarantine on the reduction of the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs: i.e., COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, and MERS)
Quarantine on Tropical Medicine and quarantine Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus Cases: A Infectious Disease …
McMaster Health Forum · 16 September 2024 English
COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 13.2b - appendices: Unintended health and social consequences of isolation and quarantine for respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs: i.e., COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, and MERS)
Nuraini, N. The Impact of COVID-19 Quarantine on Tuberculosis and Tropical quarantine Diabetes Mellitus Cases: …
McMaster Health Forum · 16 September 2024 English
COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 13.2a - appendices: Effectiveness of isolation on the reduction of the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs: i.e., COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, MERS)
Nuraini, N. The Impact of COVID-19 Quarantine on Tuberculosis and Tropical quarantine Diabetes Mellitus Cases: …
INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 13 September 2024 French
Ce rapport de surveillance porte sur les maladies à déclaration obligatoire (MADO) d’origine chimique associées à une exposition professionnelle au Québec. Le rapport brosse un portrait des MADO ayant débuté …
Occupational Asthma. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2020; 24 (1) : 8-21. https://doi …