disease in the background contemplation

[burntcopper]

Tuberculosis. Or TB, as we more commonly know it.

Odd thing. In the UK, it's an ever-present thing. Not an 'argh, we have contagion', but everyone knows about it. Unless you're an immigrant, everyone - and I mean *everyone* has the inoculation scar on their arm they got at 15, which was bloody painful and for most people, puss-ridden until it healed. We learn maybe a tiny bit about it in school as one of the diseases of history, but that's about it. The most we really know about it is that it's a disease to be - not wanted. Like measles, but more severe, and everyone can find their TB / BCG scar in two seconds.

I know in America you don't get inoculated, so how is it treated/viewed there?

Comments

[brigid31.livejournal.com]

I think that most people don't really know about it all. I happen to be from the place where they first cured TB so I have extensive knowledge of TB and no people who survived the disease but many other people have no clue that it exists, aside from in the movies.