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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.
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 ...
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 ...
This July 12, 1953, article by El Paso historian Cleofas Calleros traces Hotel Dieu’s history. Hotel Dieu hospital was answer to growing need due to tuberculosis, tent city in El Paso Skip to ...
Arroyo del Valle Sanitarium, originally opened as Del Valle Preventorium, was a sanitarium located in Livermore, California, United States that specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis. The hospital campus originally spanned over 160 acres. [1] Upon opening in 1918, the hospital had a capacity of 280 patients. This was later expanded to 300.
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]
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 ...
Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, [6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. [11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were ...