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A chart showing the rate of tuberculosis in inspected livestock in a 1938 publication of the United States Department of Agriculture. In the United States, concern about the spread of tuberculosis played a role in the movement to prohibit public spitting except into spittoons. Public health measures were inaugurated to track and control the ...
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis (3 C, 930 P) 21st-century deaths from tuberculosis (29 P)
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 ]
Some of these diseases included gonorrhea, syphilis, influenza, cholera, tuberculosis, the mumps, measles, smallpox, and leprosy (which lead to the creation of a leper colony on Molokai in the mid-1800s). [2] [3] While each disease brought a different outcome, they all contributed to the reduction of the Native Hawaiian population as they ...
Tuberculosis deaths in the Russian Empire (58 P) S. Tuberculosis deaths in the Soviet Union (39 P) Y. Tuberculosis deaths in Yugoslavia (4 P) This page was last ...
The Royal Commission on Tuberculosis (1896–1898), also known as the First Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, was an early investigation into the history of tuberculosis (TB). On 25 April 1895 the report was published as a parliamentary paper .
An AI death calculator can now tell you when you’ll die — and it’s eerily accurate. The tool, called Life2vec, can predict life expectancy based on its study of data from 6 million Danish ...
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. Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927; Charles Brockden Brown; Charles Farrar Browne