Why can you die of tuberculosis?

“Eventually, liquid replaces the lungs, the suffering patients cannot get enough oxygen, and respiratory failure occurs, they can no longer breathe and they drown. It's painful, it's drawn out. It's an awful way to die. 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

Tuberculosis can infect your bowels, causing malnutrition and death, infection through the bloodstream in the membranes of your brains, tuberculous meningitis, this will kill you too, bone tuberculosis usually won't kill, but maim you seriously, e.g. having a vertebra collapse. 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