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.
Durante a década dos 50, sóubose que a tuberculose estaba causada por unha infección bacteriana moi contaxiosa, o que era ben menos romántico, pero tiña a vantaxe de que se cadra podiamos  crear medicinas para tratala.