By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Editor’s note: Regular “Mad About Science” columnist Brenden Bobby is on a well-deserved vacation. He’ll be back next week. Tuberculosis is a disease that, to most, feels historic. It was (likely) known in ancient Greece as “phthisis,” in 19th-century Europe as “consumption” and in more modern times as the “white plague.” Though we imagine TB as a disease of the past, it remains the most deadly infectious disease…
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