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By Robert Baker. 256 pp., illustrated. Thrupp, England, Sutton Publishing, 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-750-94108-2.

The tubercle bacillus has quite a vendetta against the arts, having been associated with the deaths of Jane Austen, Frédéric Chopin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Alexander Pope, and Molière. And as Robert Baker points out in his book, "consumption" still kills and is one of the "weary litany of diseases that are treatable or preventable by simple measures, yet persist in the developing world." These diseases — including tetanus, measles, malaria, sandfly fever, Chagas' disease, Ebola virus infection, cholera, rabies, sleeping sickness, West Nile virus infection, and infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or AIDS — continue . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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