1. Tuberculosis By Justin Reynolds

2. What is it? Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs but can also be found in many other organs.

3. How you get it? You can get Tuberculosis from someone that already has it. When someone who has tuberculosis coughs or sneezes and you are near you could breath in the bacteria.

4. Once you breath in the bacteria it gets into the lungs it can spread to other organ in the body. Your body can fight the bacteria unless your immune system is weak.

5. symptoms Tiredness Weakness Weight loss Fever Night sweeting Coughing Chest pain Coughing up blood Shortness of breath

6. When you get these symptoms and go to the hospital they will do x-rays of you chest and skin test to

7. Treatment To Treat tuberculosis you must take antibioticsor you could have surgery on the lungs.

8. Work sited http://www.medicinenet.com/tuberculosis/page5.htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tuberculosis.html