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etymology
'''Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)''': Certain geographical areas have seen rises in "MDR-TB". This is especially a problem when patients are intermittently-compliant with their therapy, as the organism develops drug-resistance.
'''Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)''': Certain geographical areas have seen rises in "MDR-TB". This is especially a problem when patients are intermittently-compliant with their therapy, as the organism develops drug-resistance.
==Etymology==
The word ''tuberculosis'' derives from the [[Latin]]ate ''tuberculum'', meaning root vegetable ([[French]] ''tubercule'', [[Spanish]] and [[Portuguese]] ''tubérculo'', [[Italian]] ''tubero''). The disease primarily afflicted poor people, who had a diet reliant on cheap root vegetables such as [[potato]]es and [[turnip]]s, so it was mistakenly thought the disease was harbored in such vegetables. It is now known that the squalor of [[poverty]] simply created unsanitary conditions that fostered the spread of the disease.
==Historical Figures Felled by Tuberculosis==
==Historical Figures Felled by Tuberculosis==