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TIL cough counting has value in tuberculosis care and beyond – it will likely be a common health metric tracked by every smartphone, wearable device in the near future.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 1:25 pm

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TIL that doctors have “estimated that up to one-third of the world’s population is infected with M. tuberculosis”. Most of these infections are asymptomatic and do not cause or spread disease, but the bacteria can spontaneously reactivate at any time leading to new outbreaks.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 8:19 am

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TIL Niccolo Paganini’s list of likely ailments included Marfan syndrome, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, syphilis and tuberculosis. He was prescribed a chronic “treament” of mercury and opium, with horrible effects to his physical and mental health

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 12:34 am

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TIL that at its peak in the 1800s, Tuberculosis caused 25% of all deaths in Europe.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 9:16 pm

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TIL that during a two-year recovery from tuberculosis at a sanitorium, Ringo Starr was first exposed to a percussion instrument in the form of a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his hospital bed.

by whatilearned April 25, 2022, 2:41 pm

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TIL there was another Lady Diana Spencer (nicknamed “dear little Di”) in the 18th century, who was also supposed to marry Prince of Wales at the time, but instead ended up marrying another man (Duke of Bedford) and died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 following a miscarriage

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 5:43 am

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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 12:06 am

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TIL after her death, Mercy Brown’s heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn’t; he died two months later.

by whatilearned January 30, 2022, 3:47 am

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TIL that Vice President Elect William King traveled to Cuba after contracting Tuberculosis in an effort to regain his health. Since he wasn’t able to take the oath in D.C, congress passed a special act to allow him to take the oath in Cuba. King was sworn in on March 24, 1853, near Matanzas, Cuba.

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 5:25 pm

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TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.

by whatilearned October 26, 2021, 12:36 am

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TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.

by whatilearned October 12, 2021, 9:08 pm

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TIL that a standard treatment for bladder cancer is to inject tuberculosis vaccine directly into the bladder. The bacteria enter tumor cells and are thought to stimulate the immune system to destroy them, with significantly greater response rates than chemotherapy in clinical trials.

by whatilearned September 27, 2021, 7:26 pm

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