Milestones in order. This is history, not a weekly activity grid.
- Koch's announcement
- X-ray lungs
- BCG first infant
- Streptomycin
- Isoniazid era
- WHO emergency
- DOTS strategy
- New tools
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Where should I start with Tuberculosis?
Read Identity → How they live → Body & health, then use compare rails.
Is this page advice for Tuberculosis?
Public-health education — not a care plan, prescription, or outbreak briefing.
What does the local lens add?
It names everyday desks for Encounters before English norms look universal.
Are the scores a ranking of Tuberculosis?
No — editorial 0–100 browsing aids inside this atlas only.
How do I compare Tuberculosis to neighbours?
Use related cards and best-of / quiz rails after the first three chapters.
Which chapter is densest?
How they live and Body & health carry mechanisms; skim Identity first.
Sanatoria and mountain air were culture before drugs. Then soil chemistry gave streptomycin in 1944 and combination therapy followed.
WHO's late-20th-century DOTS strategy treated TB as a management problem of completing courses.
Timeline
The bacillus is shown; germ theory gains a famous chronic disease.
Roentgen's rays later let clinics see cavities without opening the chest.
An attenuated vaccine begins a century of childhood programmes.
A soil-microbe drug first hits TB — resistance appears if it is used alone.
Combination oral therapy begins to empty sanatoria in rich countries.
WHO declares TB a global emergency as HIV and neglect reverse gains.
A five-element programme standardizes finding cases and supporting treatment.
Molecular tests and new drugs shorten some resistant courses — still specialist care.
The timeline names turning points, not today's pill list.
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