tuberculosis

But their mother, my grandmother, sick with tuberculosis, asked a friend to adopt them when she died.

"When the first fictional vampire appeared in 1819, there was a strong link with tuberculosis," she says.

“Then we started selling life insurance policies, because no one else would sell it to us, because we were all full of tuberculosis, and we were a mongrel race of Indian blood and Mexican blood,” deadpanned Rogelio Briones, a former La Mutua president, who led me on a tour of the headquarters.

JD Vance previously suggested without evidence that Haitian immigrants in the U.S. were the cause of “skyrocketing” HIV and tuberculosis diagnoses.

Among the stories that Vance spewed in appearances on TV talk shows Sunday was that there are 20,000 Haitians in Springfield, that they’re illegal immigrants, that they were “dumped” on this unsuspecting municipality, that they’re responsible for “skyrocketing” HIV and tuberculosis cases, that they’ve driven up housing prices, and of course that they’re stealing and eating the city’s geese and household pets.