is it known by any other name?
Yes, Phthisis
Tuberculosis
Phthisis
what do you mean by tuberculosis in hindi UNANSWERABLE what is this disease? It  is an infectious disease usually caused by "Mycobacterium tuberculosis" (MTB) bacteria. what are its indications? Chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. does it have any cure? Treatment of TB uses antibiotics to kill the bacteria. is it contagious? Yes, when people with active pulmonary TB cough, sneeze, speak, sing, or spit, they expel infectious aerosol droplets 0.5 to 5.0 µm in diameter and each one of these droplets may transmit the disease. has a booster available for it? The only available vaccine is Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and intradermal MVA85 Vaccine in addition to the BCG is not effective in preventing it. who invented the first booster mentioned above? UNANSWERABLE how is the disease spread across the globe? The distribution of tuberculosis is not uniform across the globe; about 80% of the population in many African, Caribbean, south Asian, and eastern European countries test positive in tuberculin tests, while only 5–10% of the U.S. population test positive. which other living organisms can get infected other than humans? Mycobacteria infect many different animals, including birds, fish, rodents, and reptiles.
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Tuberculosis [SEP] Names
Tuberculosis has been known by many names from the technical to the familiar. "Phthisis" (Φθισις) is a Greek word for consumption, an old term for pulmonary tuberculosis; around 460 BCE, Hippocrates described phthisis as a disease of dry seasons. The abbreviation "TB" is short for "tubercle bacillus". "Consumption" was the most common nineteenth century English word for the disease. The Latin root "con" meaning "completely" is linked to "sumere" meaning "to take up from under." In "The Life and Death of Mr Badman" by John Bunyan, the author calls consumption "the captain of all these men of death." "Great white plague" has also been used.