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Congrats, Pres. Pip and RC Roxas on your successful 3K Fun Run.

This is an excellent idea to stress that a healthy individual and healthy lifestyle are needed to Stop TB Now!

Consider these facts:

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air.Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectiouspeople cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli,into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to beinfected.

Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on averagebetween 10 and 15 people every year. But people infected with TB bacilli willnot necessarily become sick with the disease. The immune system "wallsoff" the TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormantfor years. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becomingsick are greater.*

Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.*

Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with theTB bacillus.*

5-10% of people who are infected with TB bacilli (but who are not infectedwith HIV) become sick or infectious at some time during their life. People withHIV and TB infection are much more likely to develop TB.

Let us all join together and support DG Edgar Sy's initiative and D-3850's advocacy to Stop TB Now!

PP Raphy Tayco

RC Kalibo