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  2. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, [6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. [11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were ...

  3. Seaview Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Seaview Hospital is a historic hospital complex in Willowbrook on Staten Island, New York. [2] The original complex was planned and built between 1905 and 1938 and was the largest and most costly municipal facility for the treatment of tuberculosis of its date in the United States.

  4. List of sanatoria in the United States - Wikipedia

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    King County Tuberculosis Hospital Seattle, Washington [36] 1930 Lake View Sanatorium: Madison, Wisconsin [37] 1933 Sioux San Hospital: Rapid City, South Dakota: 1934 Arizona State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Tempe, Arizona [38] 1934 Glenn Dale Hospital: Glenn Dale, Maryland: 1936 Dr. Hudson Sanitarium: Newton County, Arkansas [39] 1939 University ...

  5. Cultural depictions of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    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 the only known work by an anonymous patient in an English asylum who died of the disease in ...

  6. Paimio Sanatorium - Wikipedia

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    Paimio Sanatorium Interior of the sanatorium Postage stamp depicting the Paimio hospital building Exhibition reconstruction of a sanatorium patient's room Sun deck at the top floor of the building. Paimio Sanatorium ( Finnish : Paimion parantola , Swedish : Pemars sanatorium ) is a former tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio , Southwest Finland ...

  7. Tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs - Wikipedia

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    The Eleanor Home, run by Eleanor Collier and about 30 women, administered care beginning in 1888 to patients with tuberculosis while the Bellevue Sanitarium was built. [1]: 328 The Bellevue Sanitarium opened in 1890 on Institute Street near St. Francis Hospital with five tents. It was founded by a group of physicians and the house physician was ...

  8. More than 500 people asked to test for tuberculosis after ...

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    The day care patient got sick in August. Douglas County’s tuberculosis investigation may be one of the largest ever in the Midwest, Frederick said, but Nebraska historically doesn’t see many ...

  9. Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives - Wikipedia

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    The Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives, also known as the Ah-Gwah-Ching Center, was opened in 1907 to treat tuberculosis patients. The name "Ah-Gwah-Ching" means "out-of-doors" in the Ojibwe language. The center remained a treatment center for tuberculosis until January 1, 1962. During that time, it treated nearly 14,000 patients.