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

[ladydchaos.livejournal.com]

hmmm i always wondered WHAT that scar was on people...cos i don't have one......

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

's how you can tell the bloke in the Athena L'Enfant poster is British. (well-muscled bloke holding baby that everyone had on their wall during the eighties/early 90s)

[ladydchaos.livejournal.com]

i don't remember that poster....