1. Transmission of Tuberculosis
L.O: to describe how TB can
be transmitted
to improve literacy skills
Starter: True or False? Next to each statement on the worksheet, write whether it is or isn’t a risk factor for spreading TB. For each false statement, think of another disease it relates to.

2. Receiving a blood transfusion from someone with TB
Having an immune system that has been weakened by HIV or other medical conditions
Drinking unclean water
Consuming unpasteurised milk and cheese
Living in poor and/or crowded housing conditions
Being in poor health or having a poor diet due to lifestyle and behavioural problems, such as drug abuse, alcoholism or homelessness
Being bitten by a mosquito
Having lived in, travelled to, or received visitors from parts of the world where TB is still common

3. Receiving a blood transfusion from someone with TB
Having an immune system that has been weakened by HIV or other medical conditions
Drinking unclean water
Consuming unpasteurised milk and cheese
Living in poor and/or crowded housing conditions
Being in poor health or having a poor diet due to lifestyle and behavioural problems, such as drug abuse, alcoholism or homelessness
Being bitten by a mosquito
Having lived in, travelled to, or received visitors from parts of the world where TB is still common

4. Transmission of Diseases
1. To demonstrate transmission, you will exchange a small amount of fluid with a classmate by doing the following:
a. Place the pipette in your cup and fill it with solution.
b. Place your pipette OVER (not in) the cup of the person you are exchanging with and squirt your solution into the other cup.
c. Record the name of the person with whom you exchanged fluids in your book.
3. Repeat step 2 with two other students.
4. After you have exchanged fluids with three other classmates, your teacher will place phenolphthalein into your cup. If your cup turns pink, you are infected.

5. Analysis Who was the original infected person?!?!
Exchange notes to find out!

6. TB in animals… Cull… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QPv8XD83Yc
Or Cure…

7. From Badgers to Cattle…
Read the article ‘To Cull or Not to Cull’?
Then answer the questions on the sheet provided.

10. Give yourself a score out of 13 – how did you do?

11. TB jabs for London babies