1
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Symptoms of TB (6)
A
Chills and night sweats, Coughing blood, Fatigue, Fever, Painful coughing and breathing, Weight loss
2
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TB effects this organ
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Pulmonary tract (but can spread to other organs)
3
Q
TB was also known as…
A
The White Plague
4
Q
TB caused the most deaths in…
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the 19th and 20th centuries (70-90% of urban population infected with 80% mortality)
5
Q
TB treatment was…
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diet and bloodletting
6
Q
TB was associated with…
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weakness, bad blood, poverty
7
Q
He identified TB bacillus
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Koch (1882)
8
Q
TB cure
A
Antibiotics like streptomycin (1940’s)
9
Q
TB is one of most…
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…written-about diseases
10
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Writers that died of TB include…
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Kafka, Keats, Orwell, Thoreau
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