Now that's worse. If some kind of drugs managed to get into the system (without the full dosage), the TB will develop into multiple/extreme drug resistant strain which needs longer term antibiotics (1-2 years) with more severe side effects.
They can wear N95 mask to protect themselves. It's possible if no protection is worn. A normal mask (white side outside) offers only 40% protection. Can wear double or triple mask but no evidence shows how effective wearing multiple layers.
Again they can get infected but if body cannot contain the infection, a person gets TB. If TB is contained, the person is not infectious until it reactivate. So again, it comes back to the immune system.
Precautions can be taken other than mask. Buy the single gas burner/induction cooker/slow cooker, slowly simmer the following :
Cinnamon sticks (better if you can blend into powder)
Rosemary herbs
Serai
Pine leaves (make sure it have the fresh pine scent when you break them)
Replace them regularly like every 3 hours or else not effective in decontaminitaing the air.
The above is a crude DIY essential oil air decontaminator.
Best is if you can get 100% pure essential oil to disperse into the air.
TB is airborne, and spread through air which makes it hard to control. It don't spread through food.
on the subject of reducing the concentration of the tb microbs in the air the best method is still ventilation.
ideally have the room in "negative pressure" : something like a exhaust fan extracting air out of the room constantly and having only 1 opening which is closed most of the time, the door.
so the air in the room constantly gets replaced..........
if you want to be fancy you can install uv lighting in the air exhaust tube and also in the room(something like a uv tube on the inside of a pipe like structure and a small fan blowing air through it).