Tuberculosis has been around for hundreds of years and has killed millions of people worldwide. This disease is extremely contagious and can be transmitted with a simple cough. The disease has three different forms, and these are the basic form, MDR, and XDR. These are the types of resistance that tuberculosis has to the drugs taken to combat it. MDR, or Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, is very hard to treat but is survivable. XDR, or extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis, is next to impossible to cure. The only way to even treat the resistant strain of tuberculosis is with toxic drugs that severely weaken a person body.

In the 1900’s with the max influx of immigrants to the United States, this disease was a real problem. Its highly contagious nature could very well lead it to epidemic levels if not treated with care. This continued to be an extreme fear all the way up until the 1940’s where a new antibiotic was discovered that helped to treat this disease. For a few decades, the disease was more or less halted in its tracks, but a new disease called H.I.V. or the Human Immun0deficiency Virus helped this extremely contagious drug to once again spread.

After many years of being subjected to antibiotics, tuberculosis eventually managed to mutate into the forms that we see today such as MDR and XDR. This bacterial infection was able to mutate and run by Darwin’s laws of Natural Selection, being that these bacteria were able to survive these antibiotics. This continued to happen until these new strains were born and continue to kill people to this day. Hundreds of people die every day due to this disease, and hopefully one day we can find a drug or a cure for this infection and wipe it off the face of the planet.