The Scourge of Tuberculosis

Directions: Read "Terrible TB" (page 19). Answer the questions in Part 1 by circling T for true or F for false. In Part 2, write your answer on the lines provided.

Part 1

1. If infected with tuberculosis (TB), teens are more
likely than kids or adults




				

				
				 
				


 to develop the disease.          T  F

2. Drug-resistant TB is more of a problem in the United
States than elsewhere in the world.                         T  F

3. Scientists developed the first antibiotic to fight
tuberculosis in 1989.                                       T  F

4. Andrew Speaker risked spreading TB to other
passengers on an airplane.                                  T  F

5. Globally, TB kills about 50,000 people per year.         T  F

6. One way health officials are fighting TB is by
restricting the travel of people with dangerous cases.      T  F

7. Everyone who is infected with TB becomes very sick
with the disease.                                           T  F

8. Sanatoriums were developed to help stop the spread of
TB to healthy people.                                       T  F

Part 2

Mimi, a character in the opera La Boheme, suffers from TB. In the modern American musical and film Rent, which is based on La Boheme, the Mimi character has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In what ways are these diseases similar, and in what ways are they different?

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Answer Part 1: 1. T, 2. F, 3. F, 4. T, 5. F, 6. T, 7. F, 8. T; Part 2: Answers will vary.