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Abstract tuberculosis is a disease that infects the body in various forms, the subject of many works of literature and arts. It is an important and killing disease as a chronic health problem and continuous threat of reinfection although after healing. Tuberculosis almost was well established in prehistoric Africa. As humans left that continent to populate the globe, they took this disease with them, reaching the Americas before the Bering Strait opened 9000 years ago, and much earlier. As tuberculosis spread with these migrating peoples, it was not uniformly endemic. The prevalence of the disease rises at some times and remains high in many places; although one-third of the world’s population is infected, almost most people will never experience the disease. Unlike the other infectious diseases, the mycobacterium tuberculosis does not activate the disease as soon as it enters the body. The disease begins after the bad life conditions such as bad straits, undernourishment, poverty, sleeplessness, fatigue, negative social life, alcoholism, debauchery, living in damp and dark houses. The worst negative conditions which are war and captivity create high predisposition to catch tuberculosis. An example of this situation, an Ottoman officer who was captivated by the Russian Army during the First World War will be studied by way of examining his diary. Moving up from this point, some information will be made about the conditions of the Ottoman's East Front as well as the conditions of the captivity under Russia. And this prominent infectious disease, tuberculosis disease will come under review together with its history.

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