All you need to know about tuberculosis

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All you need to know about tuberculosis
Last updated Mon 27 November 2017
By James McIntosh   
Reviewed by University of Illinois-Chicago, School of Medicine   
 

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs. Compared with other diseases caused by a single infectious agent, tuberculosis is the second biggest killer, globally.

In 2015, 1.8 million people died from the disease, with 10.4 million falling ill.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, a tuberculosis epidemic rampaged throughout Europe and North America, before the German microbiologist Robert Koch discovered the microbial causes of tuberculosis in 1882.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/8856.php

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10 years ago an article such as this wouldn't be found as the disease had been virtually wiped out in America.  But, thanks to our amigos from south of the border, it is rearing it's ugly head again.