Oregon Experience
White Plague
Season 4 Episode 406 | 29m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn the historical impact of tuberculosis in Oregon.
Consumption or "wasting disease," as tuberculosis was also called, once ran rampant in America. It still claims 8 million lives a year worldwide. Oregon led the Northwest in the fight against TB in the early 1900s. But until the advent of modern antibiotics, most treatments remained crude and ineffective. This program explores the historical impact of TB in Oregon.
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Oregon Experience is a local public television program presented by OPB
Oregon Experience
White Plague
Season 4 Episode 406 | 29m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Consumption or "wasting disease," as tuberculosis was also called, once ran rampant in America. It still claims 8 million lives a year worldwide. Oregon led the Northwest in the fight against TB in the early 1900s. But until the advent of modern antibiotics, most treatments remained crude and ineffective. This program explores the historical impact of TB in Oregon.
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