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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. Throughout history, the disease tuberculosis has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague.
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Monrovia, California [12] 1904 Temple Sanitarium: Temple, Texas: 1904 Las Encinas Sanitarium Pasadena, California [13] 1904 Paradise Valley Hospital California: National City, California: 1905 Swedish Medical Center: Englewood, Colorado: 1905 Portland Open-Air Sanatorium Milwaukie Heights, Oregon [14] 1905 Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital ...
This July 12, 1953, article by El Paso historian Cleofas Calleros traces Hotel Dieu’s history from Sister Stella burrowing $5,500 to buy the hospital site at Stanton and Rio Grande streets to ...
But the United States is actually experiencing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in its history. The outbreak, which is concentrated in Kansas, seems to have been going on since 2021, but a lot of ...
Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920 – 17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic who discovered streptomycin, [1] the first antibiotic known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis. [2]
Hassler Health Farm, formerly known as San Francisco Health Farm between 1927 and 1931, was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients of the San Francisco Bay Area, owned by the City of San Francisco. It was located in a remote part of San Mateo County, California, in what is today San Carlos, until 1964. After the discovery of antibiotics ...
Tuberculosis cases ticked up from 2020 to 2022. That's likely a result of reduced access to medical care — and therefore screenings — during the pandemic. Why tuberculosis cases have risen in ...