I'm really worried about my dad. He's been getting a fever in the evenings for the last 20 to 25 days. It goes up to 101.5 and then seems to come down by morning. Some nights he doesn't have a fever at all and he's just normal. We got an X-ray and it mentioned there's some opacity on the left side. Could you help me understand what might be going on or what this could mean?

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Dr Dr Khaleel Ur Rahim

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it looks like tuberculosis, proceed to test the same

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