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Tuberculosis has been known by many names from the technical to the familiar. [202] Phthisis (φθίσις) is the Greek word for consumption, an old term for pulmonary tuberculosis; [7] around 460 BCE, Hippocrates described phthisis as a disease of dry seasons. [203] The abbreviation TB is short for tubercle bacillus.
The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. White Plague: Tuberculosis [5] The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). Woolsorter's disease: Anthrax [22] Refers to people who tended to contract the disease (from the sheep) 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Rojas had tuberculosis when he painted this. Here he depicts the social aspect of the disease, and its relation with Living conditions at the close of the 19th century. The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) through to the vaccines and treatments methods developed to contain and mitigate its impact.
Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...
Tuberculosis is back to being the leading infectious disease killer across the globe, surpassing COVID-19, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization.. Nearly 8.2 million ...
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A variant is just a slightly changed virus, Linda Yancey, M.D., an infectious diseases specialist at Memorial Hermann Hospital says. “Viruses go through generations just like people do.
By 1936, the disease and the virus were recognised as unique from other viral disease. They became known as infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), but later officially renamed as Avian coronavirus. A new brain disease of mice (murine encephalomyelitis) was discovered in 1947 at Harvard Medical School in Boston.