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Welcome to Wellness and Mass.

I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and we're going to talk about something that's a little funny this

week because I got a couple of radio requests.

And, you know, usually I get an email or a text message or a phone call saying,

hey, Dr. Sapphire, are you available to talk about this? And in the subject line, it said what they

wanted to talk about. They're like, are you available to talk about the white plague? And I just

found myself sitting there. I'm like, white plague? What the heck is the white plague?

Am I really that out of touch with reality that there's a plague going around and I don't even know about it?

Maybe you've seen these headlines, maybe you haven't. They're definitely out there and they sound

dramatic. Certainly grabs attention.

That's what these headlines are for.

And yes, it's definitely a bit of a scare factor baked into that language.

But good news, here's the reality.

Okay, so first of all, they're not entirely wrong.

There are cases of white plague going on about that around here, but white plague is not some new emergent bacteria, parasite virus that we don't know about.

We're talking about tuberculosis.

Apparently it's called the white plague.

I had no idea.

I'd actually never heard it before.

Maybe you have. Maybe I'm the only one who's never heard that tuberculosis was called the white plague. I had no idea. I'd actually never heard it before. Maybe you have. Maybe I'm the only one who's

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