{"id":1266595,"date":"2022-12-17T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/how-to-reduce-your-risk-for-tuberculosis-tb\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:47:28","slug":"how-to-reduce-your-risk-for-tuberculosis-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/how-to-reduce-your-risk-for-tuberculosis-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reduce your risk for Tuberculosis [TB]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>According to Healthline, reducing your exposure to people who have active TB is one way to reduce your risk, but this isn\u2019t always possible. In line with a publication on Healthline, here are ways to reduce your risk for tuberculosis:<\/p>\n<p>1. If you\u2019re going to be travelling to a foreign country where tuberculosis continues to be a serious public health challenge, get up-to-date information about travel warnings or vaccination requirements from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>2. Try to avoid crowded places if possible when travelling to areas with a high prevalence of TB. Other ways to reduce your exposure include:<\/p>\n<p>3. Always keep your room well-ventilated. Tuberculosis bacteria tend to spread faster in more confined spaces with less outside air.<\/p>\n<p>4. If you have contracted the disease, stay home for several weeks or months after you have started TB treatment.<\/p>\n<p>5. There is a tuberculosis vaccine called the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine. Therefore, you can try to get vaccinated. It\u2019s more commonly used in countries with a higher rate of TB among babies and children.<\/p>\n<p>6. If you\u2019re at increased risk for TB, BCG may help reduce your risk.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Henryslaw (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nHealthline<br \/>Tuberculosis<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Healthline, reducing your exposure to people who have active TB is one way to reduce your risk, but this isn\u2019t always possible. In line with a publication on Healthline, here are ways to reduce your risk for tuberculosis: 1. If you\u2019re going to be travelling to a foreign country where tuberculosis continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}