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Documentary tracing the history of tuberculosis in America from the mid-1800s, when TB took on a mythology all its own, to today, when the disease has made a resurgence after 40 years of antibiotics. The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America (1995) - Turner Classic Movies
Watchlist. How the U. S. coped with TB, the "greatest killer known to mankind," in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the disease and the frenzy to find a cure were at a peak. Included: quack ...
- Joe Mantegna
Feb 10, 2015 · The Forgotten Plague. By the dawn of the 19th century, the deadliest killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. The disease struck America ...
The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America: With Joe Mantegna.
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- Joe Mantegna
Sep 26, 1995 · When Lawrence Hott tells people he just finished a two-hour documentary on the history of tuberculosis in America, he can almost see their eyes glaze over. He can understand why. He wasn’t to…
Oct 2, 1995 · A TWO-HOUR documentary about tuberculosis sounds like a stretch until you start watching it. Then you discover that tonight's "The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America" (WNET/Ch. 13, 9 o'clock ...
The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America From the 1880s to the 1950s, America waged a full-scale war against tuberculosis-the deadliest epidemic in history, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and changing millions more.
