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What makes tuberculosis (TB) the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas

What makes tuberculosis (TB) the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas

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In 2008, two 9, 000-year old skeletons were found with their bones infected by an all too familiar bacterium. The ancient Greeks knew its effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and today we call it tuberculosis, or TB. TB is still one of the worlds most infectious killers, causing more deaths than malaria or even HIV. How has it persisted for so long? Melvin Sanicas investigates. Lesson by Melvin Sanicas, directed by Augenblick Studios
Date: 2020-08-22

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You know, there are some concerns about strains of TB resistant to all known antibiotics. If a disease with a 2-5% mortality rate among the untreated infected caused all these problems, imagine the chaos that a disease with no reliable treatment that kills in at least 10% of cases.
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gratitude for this video on tuberculosis I wish the schools would teach it as well as it was presented on this video the pictures and the Arts funny and very enlightening and interesting and it keeps your attention very well and it's easy to understand okay thank you very much.
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I got TB when I was a baby but they did treat it but it affected my childhood, I was constantly sick with lung problems and usually coughed until I threw up with chest pains and wheezing: (
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kind of funny reading the comments in 2020. TB killed 1. 5 million people in 2018 alone, but I don't recall hearing anything about that pandemic unlike another I could mention.
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this disease kill my favorite characters, when my favorite character start to cough i always say to myself here it comes. the cursed disease i call it
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It TB was as politicized as Covid-19, it'd smash it out of the stratosphere. I've never heard of someone getting TB and just shaking it off in a few days. Covid on the other hand.
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My friend recently passed away from TB. He wasnt always good but he did his best and saved my life at the very last moment. Rest in peace Morgan.
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