Tuberculosis: Consumption Gumption

Send us Fan Mail Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest diseases in the world infecting over 100 Million people annually. Every episode we end by asking listeners to send in any episode suggestions they'd like to hear about in the future. Well ask and the disease guys will deliver! Tulane University student Anna Ryu has done amazing work with the Borgen project and wanted to shed some light on ways we can help to prevent further spread of this horrible disease through legislation. Brett breaks down the science behind why TB remains so deadly. While Andy dives back down the rabbit hole to find out if vampires deserve a closer look. . sources . . https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htm#:~:text=TB%20in%20humans%20can%20be,China%20(2%2C300%20years%20ago). https://health.clevelandclinic.org/understanding-tuberculosis-6-facts-to-know/ https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm https://www.history.com/news/the-disease-that-helped-put-colorado-on-the-map https://cmr.asm.org/content/24/2/351 https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/tuberculosis#:~:text=About%20one%20quarter%20of%20the,likely%20to%20develop%20active%20TB. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10538667#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20has%20quarantined,Canada%2C%20possibly%20exposing%20other%20passengers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524552/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00281/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524552/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00281/full https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/treatment/tbdisease.htm https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11954-man-quarantined-in-us-for-extreme-drug-resistant-tb/ https://www.medindia.net/health_statistics/health_facts/interesting-facts-and-statistics-about-tuberculosis.htm https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/07/12/tb.suit/ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10538667#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20has%20quarantined,Canada%2C%20possibly%20exposing%20other%20passengers. https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170328/passenger-with-xdrtb-died-on-3hour-flight-from-turkey-to-germany https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/p0000436/p0000436.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_tuberculosis_scare https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-020-0179-x https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036676/