And, more importantly, it’s potential to mutate into an untreatable version. To end out this book, the status of TB today is talked about. From the beginning of Sanitoriums and the isolation of patients to the understanding of contagions… the discovery of TB and the race to find a cure were a fascinating story. Not just because it’s the history of an important aspect of science (discovering that microbes can in fact cause death), but also because it provides an insight into the people and cultures of the time. The history of a prominent disease is always going to be kind of fascinating. A great read for those who want to find out more but don’t have the science background. Murphy and Blank are able to inform the reader about the journey of TB without getting too scientific. Yet, even if I didn’t have this background, I would find this book incredibly informative. I do have a background in biology (although I focus on environmental biology), so my basic understanding of diseases such as TB and others is fairly sound. Alright, there are a lot of differences between TB and Corona, but there were also SO many similarities! And it kind of felt like a really good time to read about a microbe based disease. When toilet paper was being hoarded and people were just generally going nuts. I read this at the beginning of the insanity attached to COVID-19 in Australia.
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