Child with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that normally affects the lungs, but can also affect other body tissues. It is cau

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Child with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that normally affects the lungs, but can also affect other body tissues. It is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It was a widespread cause of disability death before the use of a vaccine (from 1921) and antibiotics (from 1944). Photographed at Sea Breeze Hospital, Coney Island, New York, USA, between 1914 and 1920.

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