During a 2010 white plague outbreak in the Virgin Islands, researchers analyzed the viruses present in diseased and healthy corals. While all of the sampled corals carried numerous viruses, the tissue ...

Joseph Severn, friend of the English romance poet John Keats, sat by Keats’s side as he finally succumbed to tuberculosis. “The phlegm seemed boiling in his throat,” Severn wrote of his friend. “He ...

Nicole Wiesner directs Karel Čapek’s 1937 parable (translated by Peter Majer and Cathy Porter) about the clash between fascism and pacifism. In an unnamed country the citizenry is stricken with an ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – They call it the "white plague," and like its black counterpart from the Middle Ages, it conjures up visions of catastrophic death, with a cause that was at first uncertain even as ...

Before the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19, Berks County grappled with another devastating medical challenge, the Great White Plague. The label White Plague referred to tuberculosis (TB), once called ...

— One story about the "white plague" made the rounds over and over in the newspapers of Minnesota in the early 1900s. Nearly every publication that Mary Krugerud looked at from the early 1910s carried ...

What infectious disease killed more adults and young people around the globe at the end of the 20th century than any other? What resurgent disease has become resistant to each new drug developed since ...

Once, pasteurization helped conquer “The White Plague”, saving millions of lives from TB and other diseases. Now, legislators across the nation are inviting it back—served in a glass of “natural,” ...