ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Night Sweats, England In The Middle Ages, Susan Sontag
24 Oct 2014
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Where youth grows pale and spectre-thin and dies john keats. It has never gone away in others: lethal combination with hiv: synergy they make each other worse. Where you see poverty you also often see tb. It disappeared from minds of people, but never actually disappeared. Re-emerged in nyc. was present in epidemic form in impoverished areas. Especially in an area with close living conditions like the city. There was fear that it would spread to more well-to-do populations. Health officials are alarmed by outbreaks of drug- resistant tuberculosis, including one reported this week in new york prisons. A two-stage phenomenon: infection does not equal disease. Well-adapted to human lung suggests a long association with humans. Waxy covering means that they slip in without causing the immune system to immediately react. Produces small amounts of toxin doesn"t put immune system into high alert. Buried deep in tissue breathed into lungs and goes deep.
