The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 8, 2024
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest diseases that can now be prevented and cured. Many researchers worked to develop effective TB treatments, but they didn’t do it alone. In The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, author Maria Smilios chronicles the lives and lifesaving work of the Black nurses of Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, N.Y., who worked alongside them and were largely unknown to history until now.
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