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Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland.She may have been born with typhoid fever as her mother was infected during pregnancy. [5] [6] [7] In 1884 at the age of 15, she emigrated from Ireland to the United States.
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]
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.
As a memorial to her husband, Albert Glockner, the 22-year-old widow Marie Gwynne Glockner opened the Glockner Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1890. Her husband had died of tuberculosis at 31 years of age. Glockner family members supported the development of the sanatorium. Patients were charged $1 (equivalent to $34 in 2023) per day.
At the time, tuberculosis was called the robber of youth, because the disease had higher death rate among young people. [63] [65] Other names included the Great White Plague and the White Death, where the "white" was due to the extreme anaemic pallor of those infected.
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.
Name Location Notes Ref. 1853 Batavia Institute: Batavia, Illinois [1] 1866 Battle Creek Sanitarium: Battle Creek, Michigan [2] 1881 Brooklyn Home for Consumptives: Brooklyn, New York [3] 1881 Rockhaven Sanitarium: Crescenta Valley, California [4] 1884 Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids: Manhattan, New York [5] 1885 Adirondack Cottage ...
Eugeen Van Mieghem's Facing Death depicts his wife Augustine lying sick with the disease. [32] Alice Neel's 1940 painting T.B. Harlem depicts a tuberculosis ward in New York. [8] The permanent collection of the American Visionary Art Museum contains a life-size applewood sculpture, Recovery, of a tuberculosis sufferer with a sunken chest. It is ...