The history of the pulmonary tuberculosis provides a sobering window into the depths of a public-health scare, one that contains lessons both cautionary and instructive as we confront the Wuhan virus.

Tuberculosis was once a top killer in the U.S. ... The disease also inspired some of the great ... Some historians estimate that the so-called white plague caused about 25 percent of all deaths in ...

CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS. Share full article. June 4, 1908. ... The 200,000 lives annually cut off by the "great white plague" represent the loss of a National asset greater than the mines or the ...

Based on: The Great White Plague — Tuberculosis. By Edward O. Otis, M.D., Professor of Pulmonary Diseases and Climatology, Tufts College Medical School; President of the Boston Tuberculosis ...

Eloy Pacheco, a tuberculosis (TB) patient, adjusts his lung catheter at his home on the outskirts of Lima in this November 10, 2011 picure. TB is a bacterial infection that destroys patients' lung ...

Before the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19, Berks County grappled with another devastating medical challenge, the Great White Plague. The label White Plague referred to tuberculosis (TB), once call… ...

The slow-acting tuberculosis bacterium may be the most damaging ... ‘Phantom Plague’ Review: Tuberculosis Past, and ... arms race between biomedical science and one of the great killers of ...

Archives reveal the “forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California: tuberculosis. Archives reveal the "forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California: tuberculosis. Lost LA host ...

Its administrators led a nationally-recognized campaign to conquer the tuberculosis, or the "white plague." ... 2025, and many took advantage of the combination of great food and music. Jun 9 ...