NO. You cannot get TB from kissing an infected person. TB is NOT spread through shaking someone’s hand, sharing food, touching bed linens or toilet seats, or sharing toothbrushes
TB is spread through the air. The droplets containing the bacteria must be inhaled for the infection to spread from one person to another.
This means that being near someone with TB disease when they cough, sneeze or even talk close to your face for an extended period of time puts you at risk for infection.
Kissing, hugging, or shaking hands with a person who has TB doesn’t spread the disease. Likewise, sharing bed linens, clothes, or a toilet seat isn’t how the disease spreads either.
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