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We're back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again
John Green's new book highlights the history of tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, which the Trump administration’s funding freeze is allowing to spread.
For instance, the broad understanding that dry desert climates could help treat TB led many white “lungers” to migrate to New Mexico, which changed the racial makeup of the territory and made it more palatable in an age of overt racism—paving the way for statehood. After Koch’s discovery, the logic flipped, and the consensus was that high rates of TB among Black Americans living in cramped housing and dirty conditions also conveniently proved that whites were superior by virtue of their stronger respiratory systems. And yet, in the early 2000s, USAID administrator Andrew Natsios claimed that anti-retroviral drugs could not be distributed in Africa because Africans didn’t have clocks and couldn’t adhere to the strict treatment schedule.
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