Grant. Also known as the "white plague," tuberculosis is a contagious, airborne bacterial disease transmitted through coughing, sneezing, and talking. Even singing or laughing at close range can ...

Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to anemia from the disease, with people appearing pallid or chalky – leading to near-certain death. Untreated active TB ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

The others include his penultimate play, Bílá nemoc (“The White Plague, or Sickness, or Disease,” 1937). Čapek begins by revealing how the “idea” of the play came to him (in the sense Kingsley Amis is ...

The Environment Agency is continuing to monitor a disease outbreak which is putting the future of the native white clawed ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...

They were also frightened because the disease was very painful and it affected rich and poor people alike. Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague.

Humans have been struggling with this horrific lung disease for at least 9,000 years. And now, a new outbreak is plaguing Kansas City.