Medical Minute: Amy Winehouse does not have TB, but do you?

Amy Winehouse is a sick woman. The British singer has been hospitalized in a London hospital ever since fainting at home on June 16. Winehouse was not diagnosed with the sometimes fatal lung infection Tuberculosis as some online reports suggested. But you could be infected with Tuberculosis right now and not even know it. Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious lung infection caused by inhaling an airborne bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but TB bac