Was it typical for the disease to only affect 1 person within a household? (The year 1900) (I'm trying to understand how TB affected households in the early 1900s. I have seen situations where only 1 person in the house would die from TB and was wondering why it didn't affect the other members of the family)
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what is 1900? tuberculosis affects a person when his body resistance lowers ie weakens. if u have resistance in ur body u will not be affected if in the early stages TB has a very good treatment and its curable in late stages also. may be he was having some other problem also and combined effect is death
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You can be exposed to TB and not get it. You can get it and not ever have symptoms (just be a carrier) or have symptoms years later. You can get it and have non-typical symptoms, and so die of it years later with out the doctors of the time ever realizing that you had it. You can have symptoms, but your body can fight it off and you can go into remission. There are too many variables too predict accurately, but it does seem very unlikely that the entire rest of the family would never get it at all, as it is a bacteria transmitted through the air. You also are overlooking the possibility that he was misdiagnosed. Diagnostics back then weren't great, especially if it were a poor family. He could have had lung cancer, lymphoma, a fungal infection, or any number of other diseases that they just didn't know about then
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