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Why should we avoid standing close to a tuberculosis patient while he/she is coughing?

We should avoid standing close to a tuberculosis patient while he/she is coughing as tuberculosis is an air-borne disease and it gets easily spreads through the air.

When an infected person cough, the pathogen spreads and remain suspended as droplets in the air and can easily infect a healthy person.


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