tuberculosis
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Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Eddie died of what is believed to be tuberculosis shortly before his fourth birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
What might France's greatest playwright have written had he not died of tuberculosis in 1673?
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Its scientists have previously studied the spread of bovine tuberculosis as well as viruses carried by bats and the factors influencing their spillover into people.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Doody spent four years in a tuberculosis sanatorium and refers to himself as a “lunger”—slang for someone who suffers from a disease of the lungs.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing tuberculosis
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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