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IN World War II, in the United States Army, all patients with tuberculosis — whether pulmonary or otherwise — were sent either to Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado, or to Bruns ...

Tuberculosis sanatoriums offered patients fresh air, entertainment, ... Isolation hospitals and sanatoriums were part of a decades-long experiment in quarantine construction, ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

However, during the World War II, a trio of Italian doctors used this universal fear to not harm, ... The "K" was thought to hint at Koch's disease, which is another name for tuberculosis.

M. tuberculosis growing in a microfluidics device was monitored at two-hour ... and maintained in the culture until 336 h when drug-free medium was introduced for the remainder of the experiment.

During World War II, ... To determine if people had any natural immunities to tuberculosis, ... The experiments caused enormous pain and suffering and resulted in serious bodily injury.

Five other sanatoriums report having administered ‘Koha’ on an experimental basis during World War II. The drug was developed ...

During the War of 1914-18, the mortality curve from tuberculosis, which had fallen from 1900 to 1914, rose sharply from 1915 to 1918, and did not decline again until after the conclusion of peace.

For males the death–rate from tuberculosis rose 13 per cent between 1939 and 1940 from 77.1 per 100,000 to 87.4; for females the increase was 7 per cent from 50.9 to 64.7.