They were supposed to stop the spread of tuberculosis.

人们期望它们能阻止肺结核传播。

TB is blamed for two million deaths every year.

每年，死于肺结核人数为200万人。

Diabetics are three times as likely to contract tuberculosis.

糖尿病患者感染肺结核几率是过去三倍。

And the TB death rate has also dropped sharply in Vo.

沃地区，肺结核死亡率也迅速降低。

Typically, TB bacteria called mycobacterium tuberculosis, are airborne.

导致肺结核结核杆菌一般是由空气传播。

Dr. Koch's discovery helped find a cure for TB.

科霍医生发现有助于找到肺结核治疗方法。

In this case, a school system fired a teacher who had tuberculosis.

这起案件中，某学校开除了一位患有肺结核老师。

You may have seen some headlines last week about a record-breaking outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas.

您可能已经看到上周堪萨斯州创纪录肺结核疫情一些头条新闻。

Treatment for latent TB infection typically involves using a single drug for a prolonged period of time.

对潜伏期肺结核典型治疗方法就是长期单一用药。

All right, I thought all TB patients had been cleared out.

我以为所有肺结核病人都转移了呢。

On this 1901 map of Washington DC, every colored dot represents a death from tuberculosis.

这张1901年华盛顿特区地图上，每一个彩色代表一个死于肺结核人。

By now, his tuberculosis was nearly terminal.

此时，他肺结核几乎已到晚期。

And hunger is killing more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

每年因饥饿死去人要高于死于艾滋病、疟疾、肺结核疾病总数。

That year, Kafka's tuberculosis got so bad he was finally forced to retire from work.

那一年，卡夫卡肺结核恶化到他不得不最终从工作中退下来。

It kills more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria put together.

癌症致死人数超过了艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾总和。

TB's outward symptoms even helped fuel the popular myth of vampirism.

肺结核病象让吸血鬼传说更加盛行。

TB researcher William Jacobs, with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

布朗克斯爱因斯坦医学院肺结核病研究者 William Jacobs 如是说。

The model called for increasing TB screening in every location where there was a registered nurse.

该系统要求增加每个地区对肺结核筛查，每个地区配备一名护士。

That's more than the number of deaths from HIV Aids, TB and malaria combined.”

这个数字比死于艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾人数总和还要多。”

Besides, French gave the statue skinny legs, because that was one symptom of tuberculosis which Harvard had.

另外， 弗兰克给了哈佛一双细腿，这是因为哈佛患有肺结核，而肺结核一个症状就是腿很细。