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Melanie Langdon is the adoring, child-like wife of a rising lawyer in present-day London, the doting mother of an infant son and a happy patient who has just been told that the worst is over in her seven-month siege of TB. Pleasantly contemplating a happy future, she falls asleep on a Victorian chaise longue, a cherished trophy from an antique-buying safari. She wakes up neither in her drawing room nor in her century nor in her own body...
Last week, as 3,000 delegates (among them, half a dozen of the founders) gathered in Atlantic City for the soth anniversary meeting of the N.T.A., the TB picture seemed radically different. The disease has slid from first to ninth place among causes of U.S. deaths, and the rate has dropped to 16 per 100,000. There is a vaccine, BCG (Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), which is fairly effective under some conditions. There are at least three wonder drugs-isoniazid, streptomycin & PAS-which can arrest a majority of TB infections, if not cure them. And with...
...doctors and laymen combined to fight a single disease, and to its 3,000 local chapters and two affiliates, the American Trudeau Society (for physicians) and the National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers. Supported by sales of Christmas seals ($23 million worth last year), they have spread the gospel that TB is, in the main, a preventable disease, that no effort should be spared to detect it early, and that treatment must be prompt. But last week's conferees were in no mood to write off the job as done...
Paradoxically, past successes have left the TB fighter a more difficult task for the future. Replacing widespread fear of the disease today are signs of a dangerous public complacency. Each year TB still takes 25,000 lives and strikes 110,000 fresh U.S. victims. For an estimated 400,000 who have the disease in active form, the annual cost is at least $600 million...
Many Unknowns. Researchers reported many promising new things for the continuing fight against TB: a drug which is related to isoniazid, and looks just as good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in treating patients. But the dominant tone of the meetings was a harshly realistic note sounded by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos...