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What is the likelihood of catching TB when experiencing daily casual contact with an infected person?
Due to the economy, I recently rented a spare room to a co-worker and long time family friend. Purely by accident I found a prescription belonging to him and because he acted suspiciously when I returned it, I checked the medication on PILL FINDER. It is an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis.
In no way are any of my family members intimate with this man, he has a private room with his own entrance and does not live as family, but as a tenant. However, he shares a bathroom with my 11 y/o son. They don’t share bath products, towels, etc. and I am obsessive about bleaching the tub after each use, but the idea that I could be exposing my children to a potentially deadly disease petrifies me.
How do I know if he is contagious and how is this disease transmitted?
TB is not “highly” contagious.If he is being treated there is nothing to be concerned about. TB is curable as long as it’s not the most recent virulent strain. He doesn’t sound like that.
I worked in a TB center for months with daily exposure to them coughing and interacting with them. My skin test has not even come up positive. If your son is pretty much healthy there is no need for concern, although I can understand why you would be worried.
It might be best to talk to you tenant.
God bless.