Andrew Speaker, the 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer with a bad case of wanderlust and a worse case of tuberculosis, isn't just a media sensation. He's also the personification of a time machine, returning ...

Once, pasteurization helped conquer “The White Plague”, saving millions of lives from TB and other diseases. Now, legislators ...

LONDON (Reuters)- On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood. It ...

— One story about the "white plague" made the rounds over and over in the newspapers of Minnesota in the early 1900s. Nearly every publication that Mary Krugerud looked at from the early 1910s carried ...

What infectious disease killed more adults and young people around the globe at the end of the 20th century than any other? What resurgent disease has become resistant to each new drug developed since ...

In the long war against the white plague, medicine’s two most useful search tools have had a grave defect. Chest X rays and the tuberculin skin test both indicate whether the patient has ever had ...

"The great white plague" in Michigan : the Michigan exhibit at the International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, D.C., September 21 to October 12 / issued by the Michigan State Board of Health ...

Based on: The Great White Plague — Tuberculosis. By Edward O. Otis, M.D., Professor of Pulmonary Diseases and Climatology, Tufts College Medical School; President of the Boston Tuberculosis ...

In the last 25 years tuberculosis has been beaten down from first to seventh place on the list of U. S. killers. Although doctors know all about the cause, a great deal about the cure of T. B., it is ...

In 1992, a blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the Institute of Medicine published “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Human Health in the United States.” The report was a broadside aimed at the ...