Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague (Preview)
Preview: Season 6 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Archives reveal the “forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California: tuberculosis.
Archives reveal the "forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California: tuberculosis. Lost LA host Nathan Masters explores how California’s fresh air and sunshine drew "consumptives" to local sanatoriums as well as the stark realities of life as a TB patient. Featured interviews include USC’s William Deverell, the Los Angeles Times’ Patt Morrison and infectious disease specialist Dr. Brenda Jones.
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Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague (Preview)
Preview: Season 6 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Archives reveal the "forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California: tuberculosis. Lost LA host Nathan Masters explores how California’s fresh air and sunshine drew "consumptives" to local sanatoriums as well as the stark realities of life as a TB patient. Featured interviews include USC’s William Deverell, the Los Angeles Times’ Patt Morrison and infectious disease specialist Dr. Brenda Jones.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe had an entire industry of sanatoriums.
People with tuberculosis came here to get better.
And what was the product?
It was the sunshine.
It came right out of the sky.
This just gives you an insight into how they tried to deal with it.
They share this terrible thing in common, but the friendships they build, the families that are created, it's its own world.
This, in some ways, is the birth of the California tourism industry.
Postcards Sold Picture-Perfect Tuberculosis Care to Tourists
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Clip: S6 Ep5 | 2m 49s | Discover an era when tuberculosis sanatoriums lined the foothills of Southern California. (2m 49s)
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