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NIOSH video on tuberculosis respiratory protection, 2002. During the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US, up to 35% of those affected by TB were also infected by HIV. [125] Handling of TB-infected patients in US hospitals was known to create airborne TB that could infect others, especially in unventilated spaces. [126]
Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1–5 mm). Its name comes from a distinctive pattern seen on a chest radiograph of many tiny spots distributed throughout the lung fields with the appearance similar to millet seeds—thus the term "miliary" tuberculosis.
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]