The impact and history of tuberculosis in New Mexico
Video: Our 2021 report on how tuberculosis numbers dropped in New Mexico from 2006 to 2019. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Every ...
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The ‘Black Angels’ cared for tuberculosis patients when no one else would
Physician Edward Robitzek, whose father had died of tuberculosis, spent the early 1940s examining the bodies ... experiment ever undertaken in the history of medicine." The efforts of Dr ...
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History of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), which is believed to be present in nature for at least 15,000 years. In the Andean ...
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's ...
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a ...
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As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB—a lung disease that ... first antibiotic treatment to become available for TB, in the 1940s. However, the microorganism quickly became drug resistant.