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People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis. But it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics; it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.

In Europe and the U.S., most white doctors believed that phthisis—as it was inherited by those with great sensitivity and intelligence—could only affect white people, and it was sometimes known as “The White Man’s Plague “

John met Henry, a teenager in Sierra Leone with TB.

Romanticized TB exist in literature and in arts.

John met Henry, a teenager in Sierra Leone with TB.

Romanticized TB exist in literature and in arts.

TB is about inequality and lack of compassion. Humans have the cure for tuberculosis and failed to do so.