1. The Return of Tuberculosis
What are our aims?
By Hardeep Nota and Shaleen Khan

2. What is Tuberculosis? What are the symptoms?
Tuberculosis is also known as TB
It’s a contagious bacterial infection spread through the air
It mostly often strikes: children and elderly adults
It kills more than 2 million people per year.
What are the symptoms?
TB in the lungs:
a bad cough that lasts longer than 2 weeks
pain in the chest
coughing up blood
Other symptoms of TB:
weakness
weight loss
no appetite
chills
fever
sweating at night

3. What happens to your lungs?
How can you get tested?
A TB skin test is the only way to find out if you have TB infection.
You should get tested for TB if:
You have spent time with a person with infectious TB
You have HIV infection or another condition that puts you at high risk for TB disease
What happens to your lungs?

4. During the summer school we designed our project pages, and this is what we have done so far…

5. Thank you for watching our presentation, we hope you enjoyed it and learnt a little more on Tuberculosis.
By Hardeep and Shaleen