Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds ...

Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France ...

Wherever it began, the pandemic lasted just 15 months but was the deadliest disease outbreak in human history, killing between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, according to the most ...

Soper believed that Mallon was a healthy carrier of the disease, a relatively new idea at the time. Later, he returned, and after evading authorities for five hours Mallon was betrayed by a scrap ...

"Since its identification in 1882, over 1 billion people have died from tuberculosis, making it one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history," says Dr. Richard Doyle, a practicing ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds ...