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Drug-resistant TB is a serious public health issue in many developing countries, as its treatment is longer and requires more expensive drugs. MDR-TB is defined as resistance to the two most effective first-line TB drugs: rifampicin and isoniazid.
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon), contracted tuberculosis during World War I; Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet and writer; Jaroslav Hašek; Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949), American poet, author, and poetry editor; Robert A. Heinlein ...
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]
Tuberculosis does not always settle in the lungs. If the outbreak of tuberculosis is in the brain, organs, kidneys, joints, or others areas, the patient may have active tuberculosis for an extended period of time before discovering that they are active. "A person with TB disease may feel perfectly healthy or may only have a cough from time to ...
Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1–5 mm). Its name comes from a distinctive pattern seen on a chest radiograph of many tiny spots distributed throughout the lung fields with the appearance similar to millet seeds—thus the term "miliary" tuberculosis.
“It’s hard to say, man,” Hamm told the others. “We’re all addicts. We all have these behaviors. It’s just, turn your will and your life over to the care of my God and put in the action.” Sobriety required constant vigilance, he suggested. “It’s not just, ‘I’m going to do it three days and then skip two.’
Coping with impending death is a hard topic to digest universally. Patients may experience grief, fear, loneliness, depression, and anxiety among many other possible responses. Terminal illness can also lend patients to become more prone to psychological illness such as depression and anxiety disorders. Insomnia is a common symptom of these. [3]
Walter Triplett Jr. is a former bouncer convicted of killing Michael Corrado during a bar fight in 2009. He grew up in Cleveland with his twin sister, Waltonya Triplett, and their two older siblings.