Hard Cough

I ride the bus and sometimes it’s full of elderly sick people and they have horrid cough ! Sounds like they could have tuberculosis or hepatitis ..

Becuz they are old and sick I can’t blame them for being in ill health but as a younger person sitting near them on a bus - is it possible to catch whatever they have ?

It just depends on if they are actually sick or not.
An older lady that went to my church coughed horribly like that because she had smoked all of her life.

Some people have diseases that you can’t catch even if you are around them. I wouldn’t worry about it.

If they had tuberculosis…they wouldn’t be riding the bus.