On 24 March 1882 Robert Koch announced the tubercle bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis.Koch 1882
Infection is typically by inhaling droplet nuclei that linger in shared indoor air, not by casual outdoor passing.Airborne nuclei
Many infected people never develop active disease. A minority later become ill, especially if immunity wanes.Latent vs active
Calmette and Guerin gave an attenuated bovine vaccine to an infant in Paris in 1921. Protection against adult lung TB is partial.BCG 1921
Because mycobacteria grow slowly and persist, treatment lasts months. Exact regimens are clinical, not listed here as recipes.Long treatment idea
The Republic of Korea has historically had a high TB burden among OECD members; rates have fallen with public-health programmes.Korea and OECD
Tuberculosis is an airborne bacterial disease that can sleep for years and then wake as a chronic cough or worse.
Koch named the bacillus in 1882. BCG and long combination treatment later turned a romantic killer into a programme disease — still unfinished globally.
This page stays at public-health concepts. Drug names and schedules are omitted so it cannot be read as a recipe.
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An airborne bacillus of latency and long care — programmes and air, not a drug recipe.
