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Potentially deadly, TB is an insidious disease that has been present in humans for at least 10,000 years. In this video segment, find out about a particularly deadly strain of the disease we are facing now. This strain is extremely resistant to current drugs. Hear from experts who are trying to develop ways to deal with this resurgence.
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This is a detailed medical overview of one of the world's most feared killers. It uses actual body organs and excellent microscopy to illustrate the lecture. The various types of the disease discussed are primary, secondary, non-pulmonary, open, military, and bovine tuberculosis, and Pott's disease. Subtopics include epithelioid cells, Langhans giant cell, granuloma, hypersensitivity reaction, and casseous necrosis. Tuberculosis meningitis and bronchial...
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Two teenagers with a deadly disease fall in love on the brink of a cure.
Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. Now he is at a tuberculosis sanatorium called Latham House, where he discovers an insular world with paradoxical rules, med sensors, and an eccentric yet utterly compelling confidante named Sadie-- and life as Lane knows it will never be the same. As Lane and Sadie fall in love-- and as their groups begins to fall...
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At his memorable lecture before the Berlin Physiological Society on March 14, 1882, Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the tubercle bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis. This program traces the history of the disease as well as the successes and failures of a man whose legacy has impacted microbiology and infectious diseases to this day. The optimism in 1982 that tuberculosis would be eradicated by 2010 is no closer to reality than Koch's...
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In the autumn of 1916, Americans are debating whether to enter the First World War. There are "preparedness parades," and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, many of them recent immigrants from Europe, fill the sanatorium.
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