In March of 1882, Robert Koch used tissue from infected guinea pigs to show that the lung disease tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At that time, TB (or ‘consumption’, as it was then known) was a constant presence in the population, infecting between 70 to 90 percent of people in urban … Read more…
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