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How is the spread of Tuberculosis in the 19th Century comparable to the AIDS Hysteria of the 80s and 90s


How is the spread of Tuberculosis in the 19th Century comparable to the AIDS Hysteria of the 80s and 90s?

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cause then people dont know what TB is, and there were no antibiotics for them then. now there is definite treatment and the BCG vaccine (although it is not that effective) so people were very afraid of TB but not so now and when AIDS was discovered in the early 80s it was the same story. but even now the antiretrovirals are only good for controlling AIDS and are not curative so the prognosis is still poor which is why people are still afraid of it. and the social stigma on those affected with AIDS
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