By the 1950s, we instead knew that tuberculosis was caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, which is slightly less romantic, but that had the upside of us being able to maybe develop drugs to treat it.
En la década de los cincuenta, descubrimos, en cambio, que la tuberculosis era causada por una infección bacteriana altamente contagiosa, lo cual no era tan romántico, pero tenía la ventaja de que, tal vez, pudiéramos desarrollar medicamentos para tratarla.