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no_hypocrisy

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4. I know it can be highly contagious.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:55 PM

Jan 27

That's why there used to be laws that prohibited spitting in a public place; the sputum could contain TB.

The 19th century called it "consumption" and was viewed as a disease commonplace around poverty.

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I know it can be highly contagious. no_hypocrisy Jan 27 #4

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