Confidence votes 86.8K. TB is a communicable disease. A communicable disease is a disease that can be passed on in one way or another from a Carrier of the disease to some one else. and is usually the result of a virus or bacterial infection.
The Mississippi is one of the worldâs great rivers. It spans 3,860 miles (6,210 km) of length as measured using its northernmost west fork, the Missouri River, which starts in the Rocky Mountains in Montana, joining the Mississippi proper in the state of Missouri.
The Mississippi flows 3,763 kilometers (2,333 miles) from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to its delta in southern Louisiana (see map). The Mississippi River Basin encompasses more than 40 percent of the U.S. land area.