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.
بحلول 1950، اكتشفنا أن مرض السل سببه عدوى بكتيرية مُعدية بشدّة، الأمر الذي كان أقل رومانسيّة، والذي دفعنا لمحاولة تطوير عقاقير لعلاجه.