Call for Effective Prevention
TB can spread through air and linger for hours. Cegielski said that, if an infected person sneeze or cough, “anybody in the room can be exposed and infected. It doesn’t have to be a room. It can be any enclosed environment — a store, a bus, any place like that.”
Implementing measures like the covering of mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing helped Western countries maintain control over the disease. We have yet to fully adapt this kind of health precautions. Cegielski also pointed out that “airborne infection control in most countries, particularly in hospitals and clinics, is rudimentary at best or even non-existent.”
