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The disease is not limited to human characters, but can help to achieve grim social realism in a novel. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle portrays tuberculosis as common among cattle reaching the meat-packing plants of Chicago. Sinclair wrote that "men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly".
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. [1] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [1]
His cartoon captioned "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Steiner is also well known for his daily cartoons on contemporary events for the Washington Times , which he created for over 20 years, starting in 1983.
[1] [2] The words are those of a large dog sitting on a chair at a desk, with a paw on the keyboard of the computer, speaking to a smaller dog sitting on the floor nearby. [3] Steiner had earned between $200,000 and $250,000 by 2013 from its reprinting, by which time it had become the cartoon most reproduced from The New Yorker.
Tuberculosis cases in Britain, numbering around 117,000 in 1913, had fallen to around 5,000 in 1987, but cases rose again, reaching 6,300 in 2000 and 7,600 cases in 2005. [126] Due to the elimination of public health facilities in New York and the emergence of HIV, there was a resurgence of TB in the late 1980s. [ 127 ]
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. Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927; Charles Brockden Brown; Charles Farrar Browne; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861; Jean de Brunhoff
Green described the book as "a history of human responses to tuberculosis intertwined with a contemporary story of one person's experience". [2] The contemporary story is largely that of Henry, a Sierra Leonean boy who shares Green's son's name. [1] He announced the book's title, Everything Is Tuberculosis on October 22, 2024. [6]
Buckles is a comic strip by David Gilbert about the misadventures of an anthropomorphic naïve dog. [1] Buckles debuted on March 25, 1996, and ended on March 21, 2021.. According to King Features Syndicate: "More of an only child with canine instincts than he is the family pet.