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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis disease
TB
Tuberculosis patients recovering in open air
along the River Thames in London in 1936.
Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
The New War on Bad Air
A century ago,
a well-ventilated building was considered good
medicine.
But by the time Covid-19 arrived,
our buildings could barely breathe.
How did that happen?
And how do we let the fresh air back in?
NYT
July 17, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/
health/covid-ventilation-air-quality.html
Children suffering from TB (tuberculosis)
sleep outside at Springfield House Open Air School,
Clapham Common, London, 1932.
Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
The fight against tuberculosis – archive, 1913
6 August 1913: Experts at London conference
unanimous in pleading
for the utilisation of every available weapon
in attacking the disease
The
Guardian
Tue 6 Aug 2019 05.30 BST
Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 14.19 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/06/
the-fight-against-tuberculosis-archive-1913
A 19th-century lithograph of Florence Nightingale
in
a tuberculosis ward
at the Scutari Barracks in Turkey
during the Crimean
War.
Credit: Album/British Library, via Alamy
The New War on Bad Air
A century ago,
a well-ventilated building was considered good
medicine.
But by the time Covid-19 arrived,
our buildings could barely breathe.
How did that happen?
And how do we let the fresh air back in?
NYT
July 17, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/
health/covid-ventilation-air-quality.html
tuberculosis (TB) / the White Death
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/society/
tuberculosis
https://www.npr.org/series/203313164/
tuberculosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tuberculosis
2024
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/11/07/
g-s1-30783/tb-tuberculosis-deadliest-infectious-disease-covid
2023
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/16/
1211062206/who-says-we-can-write-the-final-chapter-in-the-story-of-tb-
how-close-are-we
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/18/
cheaper-tb-drugs-for-millions-after-global-deal-on-patent-rights-agreed
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/
health/covid-ventilation-air-quality.html
2022
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/19/
1087538209/russias-war-with-ukraine-is-devastating-for-ukraines-war-on-tb
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/13/
1079505737/before-covid-tb-was-the-worlds-worst-pathogen-its-still-a-monster-killer
2021
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/15/
1045348764/global-tb-deaths-are-rising-and-covid-gets-the-blame
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/28/
988742791/an-unexpected-pandemic-side-effect-in-peru-a-comeback-for-tb
2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/01/
825221305/opinion-the-way-the-u-s-beat-tb-could-be-a-boon-in-battling-coronavirus
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/
article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30151-X/fulltext - March 24, 2020
2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/
health/tuberculosis-vaccine.html
2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/
health/latent-tuburculosis-deaths.html
2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/04/
539800393/south-texas-fights-tuberculosis-one-blood-test-at-a-time
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/09/
527631455/drug-resistant-tb-is-predicted-to-steadily-spread-in-4-countries
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/19/
510433479/a-teens-family-fought-to-get-her-a-restricted-tb-drug-and-won
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/07/
506751969/they-never-told-her-that-girls-could-become-scientists
2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/16/
497973176/why-is-the-news-about-tb-so-bad
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/
opinion/eliminate-the-tb-scourge.html
2015
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/22/
393860586/how-unromantic-it-is-to-die-of-tuberculosis-in-the-21st-century
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/08/
389036667/a-12-year-old-girl-shows-us-what-its-really-like-to-face-tb
2013
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/09/
198354530/sputnik-orbits-a-russian-city-finding-and-healing-tuberculosis
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/09/
197739736/TB-IN-RUSSIAN-PRISONS
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/18/
200871130/tuberculosis-outbreak-shakes-wisconsin-city
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/08/
200125585/TB-In-The-Former-Soviet-Union
https://www.npr.org/2013/06/04/
188566805/moldova-grapples-with-whether-to-isolate-tb-patients
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/03/
186072305/love-in-the-time-of-tb-a-young-family-fights-an-ancient-foe
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/02/
196318497/myths-and-stigma-stoke-tb-epidemic-in-tajikistan
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/02/
196297858/curing-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-in-kids-takes-creativity
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/12/
182903139/faces-of-drug-resistant-tb
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/03/
187268374/a-boston-familys-struggle-with-tb-reveals-a-stubborn-foe
2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/25/
drug-resistant-strains-of-tb
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/
health/13tuberculosis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/18/
john-crofton-obituary
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-05-29-
tb_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-11-
tuberculosis-threat_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-03-21-
tuberculosis-prevention_N.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/may/11/
politics.medicineandhealth
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/06/
the-fight-against-tuberculosis-archive-1913
https://www.nytimes.com/1950/01/22/
archives/george-orwell-author-46-dead-british-writer-acclaimed-for-his-1984.html
https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/crane.html
19th century - early 20th century > USA
pasteurized milk
— originating in 19th-century science
but not implemented at scale
until the early 20th
century —
(...)
Drinking animal milk
— a practice as old
as animal domestication itself —
has always presented health risks,
from spoilage or by way of infections
passed down from the animal.
But the density of industrial cities like New York
had made cow’s milk far deadlier
than it was in earlier times.
In an age without refrigeration,
milk would spoil in summer months
if it was brought in from far-flung pastures
in New Jersey or upstate New York.
Increased participation
from women in the industrial labor force
meant that more infants and young children
were drinking cow’s milk
even though a significant portion of dairy
cows
suffered from bovine tuberculosis,
and unprocessed milk from these cows
could transmit the bacterium
that causes the disease to human beings.
Other potentially fatal illnesses
were also linked to milk,
including diphtheria, typhoid
and scarlet fever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/
magazine/global-life-span.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/
magazine/global-life-span.html
drug resistant TB USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/09/
527631455/drug-resistant-tb-is-predicted-to-steadily-spread-in-4-countries
drug-resistant strains of TB
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/25/
drug-resistant-strains-of-tb
TB scare UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/may/11/
politics.medicineandhealth
TB scourge USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/11/07/
g-s1-30783/tb-tuberculosis-deadliest-infectious-disease-covid
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/
opinion/eliminate-the-tb-scourge.html
pathogen USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/13/
1079505737/before-covid-
tb-was-the-worlds-worst-pathogen-its-still-a-monster-killer
infectious disease USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/11/07/
g-s1-30783/tb-tuberculosis-deadliest-infectious-disease-covid
spread
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/09/
527631455/drug-resistant-tb-is-predicted-to-steadily-spread-in-4-countries
Bacille
Calmette Guerin BCG
BCG vaccine
UK
The BCG
vaccine protects
against tuberculosis,
which is
also known as TB.
TB is a serious infection that
affects the lungs
and
sometimes other parts of the body,
such as the
bones, joints and kidneys.
It can also
cause meningitis.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/bcg-tuberculosis-tb-vaccine/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/
bcg-tuberculosis-tb-vaccine/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/apr/30/
covid-19-what-has-the-bcg-vaccine-got-to-do-with-it-
podcast
USA > Christmas seals
USA
CHRISTMAS SEALS,
first sold 104 years ago
in a
Delaware post office,
transformed the treatment
and control of tuberculosis,
one of the most feared killers of the age.
Just as important,
they produced a revolution in philanthropy.
At that time,
the 1 percent of the late Gilded Age,
men with names like Carnegie and Rockefeller,
were creating major new philanthropic institutions.
Christmas Seals, in a way,
was the response from the other 99 percent:
by marketing something as inexpensive as a stamp
and using the proceeds
to attack a major disease,
the founders
of the Christmas Seals program
demonstrated the collective power
of
the American public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/
opinion/christmas-seals-and-mass-philanthropy.html
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