What are some diseases similar to tuberculosis and could be mistaken as Tuberculosis?

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So I am researching tuberculosis, and I have to answer the question:

If it isn't your exact disease, what else could it be?

So essentially I have to find diseases with the same signs and symptoms, ones that may act in the same way or cause your body to look the same way as tuberculosis.

I then have to talk about how they are similar and why. Any help would be great. Thanks.
So other mycobacterium would look the same on stains:
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium kansasii
and other mycobacteria

Other bacteria can cause similar lung disease (but look different on stain and culture):
Nocardia
Rhodococcus equii
and other bacteria
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What kinds of diseases can you get from using a public restroom?

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I've always heard that you can catch diseases from sitting on public toilets but no one has ever told me what kind you can get.
So I'm curious what kind of diseases have people gotten from using public restrooms?
You'd have a better chance of being hit by lightning. It's almost impossible to catch any kind of disease from a toilet, for the following reasons:
1. Infections don't live long outside the body...they need a host. Toilet seats are bad hosts.
2. They need warm wet areas to live.
3. Most infections enter the body through breaks in the skin or openings...
4. Even though your anus is an opening the intestines is a hostile enviroment for infection
5. You don't sit there long enough

You CAN get skin infections...I got one. They're not deadly, just annoying.  (+ info)

What different types of heart diseases do they have?

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I'm 23 & I saw a heart doctor yesterday, & so far, he told me that it doesn't look like I have heart disease from the EKG & ultrasound, but he has to run a stress test on a treadmill to see how I handle it. I get chest pains very easily simply just from walking the 1st 2 minutes. I know I'm overweight & I'm trying to lose it. But how can I if every time I try to exercise, I get chest pains? My Dr. said I'm too young for heart disease, & my PCP told me my cholesterol is a little high but not enough to be put on medication.

What kinds of heart diseases do they have? I hope I don't have it, & I'm trying to do my best to prevent it.
I have angina and wear a nitro patch..Ask about daily aspirin..
A coated childrens asprin takes the chest pain away quickly. you dont need a prescription for spray nitro.The side efects not pleasant :; pounding head etc.  (+ info)

Do you need to fast for a fetal echo cardiogram?

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I have an appointment tomorrow for a fetal echo cardiogram and can't seem to get a hold of the right office (It is in a hospital). I was wondering if anyone knew if I need to fast or do anything at all before the test?
I know what an echo is. I was just asking if you needed to fast for a FETAL echo.
I don't believe you have to fast but i think they need you to have an empty bladder. In essence it is no different to a normal fetal scan except they are only going to look at the fetal heart and the great vessels from the heart.

I am a paediatric cardiac nurse in the uk  (+ info)

What diseases that can be transmitted from animals to human and vice versa?

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Tell me what diseases do you know that came from animals and transmitted to us. And also what ways we can prevent it.
There are hundreds, way too many to list here! You are referring to zoonoses, the term for a disease that can be passed from animals to humans and vice versa. Zoonoses can be parasitical, fungal, bacterial, viral, and just plain "other". They can be transmitted by cows, cats, dogs, birds, reptiles, and even fish.

Read about common zoonoses at
http://www.who.int/zoonoses/en/
http://www.anapsid.org/chomeltables.html (about pets!)

If you have access to a library, this book http://www.amazon.ca/Zoonoses-Communicable-Diseases-Common-Animal/dp/927511580X is a good source for your Question.

If you have a particular pet you are concerned about, you may want to search [pet] zoonoses.  (+ info)

Is a fetal pregnancy the same as a blighted ovum?

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I went to the hospital and had a vaginal ultrasound at 12 weeks. The ER doctor told me it was a fetal pregnancy (like that was the explanation for miscarriage) but also said that my yolk sack didn't develope after about 8-9 weeks, probably due to chromosomal issues. So is this a blighted ovum?

I have a regular doctor appointment later this week, but I think I'll feel better if I know more now. Thanks.
No it's not the same thing.

A blighted ovum means that you got pregnant and the sac started to grow along with a placenta but a baby never started to grow in the sac (probably from a genetic problem right from the start). When you have blighted ovum your body is confused. Your body doesn't’t recognize that there is no baby developing inside the sac, because pregnancy hormones are still being produced which prevent a miscarriage. Most women in this situation, you had no idea that your pregnancy wasn't progressing normally until being told at the time of the scan, the news will have come as a great shock. If you have a blighted ovum your body will eventually figure out there is no baby and you will miscarry.

A fetal pregnacy simple means exactly what it says "fetal = fetus". Meaning pregnant with a fetus. So if you are having a fetal pregnancy I assume that means there is a fetus. But if your sac didn't grow past 8 weeks it could be a blighed ovum or there could be fetus present.

Please have your dr. do another ultrasound....and ask as many questions as you need to so that you understand. I'm a nurse and still don't understand why they said "fetal pregnancy".

Good luck to you....  (+ info)

What are diseases you can be diagnosed with and die from as a teenager?

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For a script. I was wondering if there were any diseases that a young teenager (10-15) could possibly come in contact and be diagnosed with at around your young teens. Thanks!
Cancer.
AIDS.
bacterial meningitis.
^^  (+ info)

How much fetal movement did you feel @ 19 weeks with your 2nd child?

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I am 19 weeks along now. I have felt some movement, but very sporadically. I know that this is technically normal, but I have had a child already. I thought I would feel more by this time with my 2nd child. I had already felt my first child move a lot more by now... This baby moves randomly and I always wonder if it's the baby or just gas. Only once or twice did I feel certain it was fetal movement.
Has anyone had this experience? Shouldn't I be feeling more?
I am a few days behind also pregnant with my second child also. I was 16 weeks when I last seen my OB and I asked him about feeling fetal movement with the second child sooner and he assured me that even though some women has a child that it can still take up to week 20 to actually feel the movement. I am like you and I have felt it at very random times. I think when we get closer to 24 weeks we will start feeling more definite fetal movement  (+ info)

What are the cause and effects of hemorrhagic diseases?

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It would be best if you could also include the nature of these diseases and prevention methods. Examples of hemorrhagic diseases would be appreciated :)

put everything about hemorrhagic diseases if you can :) THANK YOU!
A hemarrhagic disease is any disease that causes bleeding.

There are thousands of hemorrhagic diseases - way too much for Answers.

Best you narrow things down a bit.  (+ info)

How many people die of diseases each year?

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In the world.

I know the word "disease is pretty vague but I mean all types of infectious diseases.

Please give me a source so I know you didn't just make a large number up. Thanks!
i think i heard that 12 million die a year  (+ info)

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