Jacqueline Epstein – Harvard Science Review

Tuberculosis Declines in the US but Remains a Global Health Threat

by Jacqueline Epstein By the beginning of the 19th century, tuberculosis (TB) had killed one in seven people who ever lived.1 The disease is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is spread through the air from one person to another. While not every single person infected by the bacterium contracts the disease, peopleContinue reading “Tuberculosis Declines in the US but Remains a Global Health Threat”