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Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, [7] is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [1] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1]
Tuberculin proved to be an ineffective means of immunization but in 1908, Charles Mantoux found it was an effective intradermic test for diagnosing tuberculosis. [ 91 ] [ 92 ] If the importance of a disease for mankind is measured from the number of fatalities which are due to it, then tuberculosis must be considered much more important than ...
Wormwood (stylized as 'WORMWO0D') is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris [1] and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. [2] The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who worked for a secret government biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The next day, their inbox was flooded with emails from people around the world expressing grief and recounting the meaningful interactions they’d had with Mats as his alter-ego Ibelin Redmoore ...
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.
Satirical cartoon from the Boston Daily Globe accompanying an article describing superstitious beliefs in rural Rhode Island. The New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, southern Massachusetts, Vermont, and other areas of the New England states. [1]
A new Netflix documentary about Steve McNair is a true-crime narrative mixed with an NFL retrospective of a life that ended far too soon. ... “Air McNair” is as much a story of the turn-of-the ...
The ups and downs of Gary Coleman’s life are being examined in the new documentary, GARY.. Diving deeper into the child actor’s success on Diff’rent Strokes and, ultimately, his titular Gary ...