Brian’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

At the height of the sanitarium, there were nearly as many beds to treat tuberculosis patients as there were hospital beds for all other illnesses combined.

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.

"About half of all humans ever born died before the age of five."