Arecent visit to Spain found me once more “chasing” after Philippine artwork and objects in cities near Madrid, where I was ...

Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and.

Nicoletta Lanese: In the book, you say that you initially thought of TB as a disease of the past — of "19th-century poets." How was it to have that idea dispelled through writing the book?

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When John Green titled his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, he was only half-kidding. After reading this slim volume on “the history and persistence of our deadliest infection,” you might ...

And that is a result, partly of this tubercular beauty standard. When we romanticized tuberculosis, in the 18th and 19th centuries, we began to associate beauty with very frail, small bodies.

In tandem with the pervasive threat of TB, the curative power of nature promoted by mid-19th-century writers grew into an interpretation of American wilderness areas as therapeutic in the 1870s ...

At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive 19th-century poets, not present-tense humans.

In some communities, the sick have been shunned, thought to be cursed or possessed by demons. In 18th and 19th century Europe, the disease was romanticized as an affliction of poets and artists.

Public Health Wales (PHW) say that tuberculosis (TB) is a "serious public health concern" as cases of the disease are on the rise. New figures from PHW show that cases rose by 14.5% in Wales last ...

News Ellie Gosley 10:22, 24 Mar 2025 Updated 10:28, 24 Mar 2025 Health officials say tuberculosis remains "a serious public health concern" (Image: WalesOnline/ Rob Browne) ...

Public Health Wales (PHW) say that tuberculosis (TB) is a "serious public health concern" as cases of the disease are on the rise. New figures from PHW show that cases rose by 14.5% in Wales last year ...