“Tuberculosis (TB) germs spread through the air from one person to another.

TB germs can get into the air when someone with active TB disease coughs, speaks, or sings.

People nearby may breathe in these germs and become infected.

People with inactive TB, also called latent TB infection, cannot spread TB germs to other”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/tb/causes/index.html)