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The poet John Keats, here depicted by William Hilton c. 1822, died of tuberculosis aged 25.. Tuberculosis, known variously as consumption, phthisis, and the great white plague, was long thought to be associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was also known as "the romantic disease". [2]
Hart as a young child. Hart was born on October 4, 1890, in Halls Summit, Coffey County, Kansas, to Albert L. Hart and Edna Hart (née Bamford).When his father died of typhoid fever in 1892, his mother reverted to her maiden name and moved the family to Linn County, Oregon. [3]
Anne and Emily Brontë and other members of the Brontë family of writers, poets and painters were struck by tuberculosis. Anne, their brother Branwell, and Emily all died of it within two years of each other. Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tuberculosis, but there is some controversy over this today.
Per the official synopsis, in the episode, which airs Tuesday, Gates introduces actors Debra Messing and Lynskey to their roots, telling stories of ancestors who made bold decisions that reshaped ...
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
About 90% of those infected with M. tuberculosis have asymptomatic, latent TB infections (sometimes called LTBI), [87] with only a 10% lifetime chance that the latent infection will progress to overt, active tuberculous disease. [88] In those with HIV, the risk of developing active TB increases to nearly 10% a year. [88]
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In addition, between 1851 and 1910, around four million died from TB in England and Wales – more than one third of those aged 15 to 34 and half of those aged 20 to 24 died from TB. [63] By the late 19th century, 70–90% of the urban populations of Europe and North America were infected with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis , and about 80% of ...