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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]
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".
TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. [7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography ...
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]
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]
Ahead, we break down everything you need to know about their surprise appearance—from the new song they sang to the other familiar faces they appeared alongside.
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The player can make the worm kill everyone by suicide or, make the whole worship the worm thinking it is their god. Symptoms include insanity, mania, memory loss, coma, adoration, devotion, and transcendence (which causes the humans to worship the worm as their eternal god by overdosing them with oxytocin and vasopressin ).