With pandemic over, deadliest infectious disease in world is still tuberculosis
Wednesday, May 01, 2024 02:26 PM
Just a short time after “Gone With the Wind star” Vivien Leigh appeared at Atlanta’s Loews Grand Theatre for the 1939 premiere of the legendary film, the British actress caught tuberculosis on a trip to North Africa. The airborne disease would ultimately claim her life in 1967. Yet by the 1960s, a cocktail of antibiotics helped people beat TB, working so well that many today have never heard of the disease. Read more.