For this assignment you will need to pick a disease caused by a virus, bacteria, protist, fungi, helminth, or immune disorder. You will need to write me a two page, double spaced paper on the disease...

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Title: Tuberculosis
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Effect on the Body    4
Treatment    4
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History
    Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease which is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an extremely contagious disease and can cause infection from one person to another through the means of cough and spit. It is transferred through the means of droplets. It has been found out that the genus Mycobacterium emerged as early as 150 million years ago. In early Greece, the disease tuberculosis was first deemed to be infectious by the author Isocrates. In ancient Greece, tuberculosis came to be known as Phthisis. Hippocrates described the disease as a fatal disease that was capable of infecting young adults. In addition to that, it was also considered that the symptoms of the disease accurately matched that of tubercular lung lesions. In the middle ages, the disease of tuberculosis was known as "king's evil". This term was particularly popular in England and France. According to Barberis, in the year 1720, the infectious nature of tuberculosis was first discovered. It was studied and researched by the English physician Benjamin Marten. The first remedy of tuberculosis was also found out to be a sanitorium cure. The term ‘tuberculosis’ was coined by Johann Lukas Schönlein.
    Tuberculosis always had a high mortality rate. People died of tuberculosis to such an extent...