0 a serious infectious disease that can attack many parts of a person's body, especially their lungs
1 an infectious disease that can attack many parts of the body, esp. the lungs
More than 100 years ago, people often got sick and died from a bad disease called tuberculosis.
The relative contribution of exogenous re-infection to recurrent tuberculosis depends on the incidence of tuberculosis in a community [10, 11].
The case of tuberculosis similarly demonstrates how expert knowledge which challenged dominant power structures was disregarded.
The complications also mean that reproduction number estimates for tuberculosis cannot be used to calculate a simple herd-immunity threshold for the disease.
Moreover, infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, affect the size of the labour force and the productive capacity of the economy.
It was only later that the ideas were applied to another important airborne infection, tuberculosis, for which a vaccine is widely available [9, 20].
But if tuberculosis is so clearly the disease being invoked, why the mystery?
