tuberculosis

is tuberculosis hereditary

[randompsi]

Some tuberculosis is hereditary. It really depends.

[jb41799]

No.  Tuberculosis, MTB or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a common and in some cases deadly infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans.[1] Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active MTB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air.[2] Most infections in humans result in an asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of its victims.

[rogelio63]

It is not hereditary in the sense that it passed genetically.  However, due to the close proximity that families usually keep, if nothing is done to prevent it ( i.e. treatment or at least a mask ) other family members could contract it.  Also, there are certain ethnic groups, mainly Native Americans, that succumbed to tuberculosis very quickly once they were taken out of their native surroundings and placed in boarding schools.
Rogelio

[rogelio63]

Also, since I work for DHS, a lot of the drop houses in Arizona for illegals might have 60 or 80 people sleeping in a large living room, side by side.  That is why we test everyone brought in for TB.

[caregiver222]

No. Absolutely positively not. Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterial infection.

No form of tuberculosis is hereditory.