How do people die from tuberculosis?

Each year, for those people dying of pulmonary TB the following can often be true: “When TB wakes up and gets into the lungs, it eats them from the inside out, slowly diminishing their capacity, causing the chest to fill up with blood and the liquidy remains of the lungs. A wet, hacking cough is evocative of TB. read more

The problem of global TB results in the deaths each year of nearly one and a half million people. Deaths from TB are deaths from a disease that for many years has been treatable and curable. More than 30 million people have died since the World Health Organisation declared TB to be a global emergency in 1993. read more

People with HIV and tuberculosis are at a much greater risk of dying from tuberculosis, because the TB infection can be much more difficult to treat and control. Tuberculosis is actually the primary cause of death for people with HIV. read more

The actual death occurs from wasting of energy not the disease itself. A tuberculosis infection invokes an immune response which requires a lot of energy to fight the infection. read more