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Red State Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-31-07 08:50 PM
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12. My Daughter Contracted TB at Age 2
She got it from a Child Care provider. The problem - they informed us, is that with adults, the germ is carried at the top of the lungs where it can be spread with a cough, etc. Luckily with children it is in the bottom of the lung and thus not easily spread. You can also have it and it not be "active". You can carry the disease in "tuburcules" in the lungs and until they burst from being weakened by a cold, etc. you won't be really contagious.

I'm trying to recall all of this from 22 years ago so I may have some things wrong. We were fortunate that Lori was healed after over a year of antibiotic treatment. The babysitter ended up with her marriage destroyed because of the quarrantine situation.
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