anotherlife
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Yup and all his life that is what everyone in the family was afraid of.My dad caught TB in WW2 Germany during his American occupation of that country.Whilst we don't want tuberculosis in children, tuberculosis used to be the old fashioned population control. How long does it take for tuberculosis to kill an adult? And how long for a child? Lots of famous 19th century artists lived with tuberculosis, most famously the musician Chopin, who lived with tuberculosis for39 years. Hardly a killer desease.
He had to spend a year in an Army hospital stateside to get over it.
My mom told me it was a very hard disease to get over.
He was in the prime of his life at the time -- late 20's.
I can only imagine how deadly it would be for children or the elderly.
the progress of TB is HIGHLY variable. In fact-----it can remit spontaneously
oh-----well---since world war II----there have been MANY new antibiotics used
to fight TB-------sheeeeeesh-----sorry your people were so wrecked------the damned
little microbe mutates and adapts ----right now --there are new developing resistant
strains
In the 19th century, there were no antibiotics, how did people survive it? You seem to be a doctor. How long would a person survive with untreated tuberculosis?