People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America Trailers & Videos
1995
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How the U. S. coped with TB, the "greatest killer known to mankind," in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the disease and the frenzy to find a cure were at a peak. Included: quack "cures"; how research nearly eradicated TB by the 1950s. Joe Mantegna narrates.