Learn about the history of tuberculosis (TB), ... the white plague in the 1700s; consumption in the 1800s; In 1834, Dr. Johann Schonlein named the disease tuberculosis. However, ...

This May, the SciFri Book Club will read Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green. Tuberculosis has been infecting and killing humans for ages, ...

An outbreak in the late 1830s killed one in three English tradespeople, according to the 1952 account The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. Upper-class Britons died of a rate of about ...

XMAS GIVERS URGED TO HELP RED CROSS; Dr. Knopf, Tuberculosis Expert, Makes a Plea for the Christmas Stamp. WAR AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE Splendid Work of the Society in Germany -- Co-operation Needed ...

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

According to the World Health Organization, over 10 million people worldwide contracted tuberculosis (TB) in 2023. That same year, TB accounted for 1.25 million fatalities. If you think these ...

Signed edition Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and ...

John Green has a new book on the way. On Oct. 22, publisher Crash Course Books, a new imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced the forthcoming publication of a new nonfiction book by the ...

At the event, which took place virtually through the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Smilios told the story of the Black nurses who stepped up to treat the tuberculosis ...