The agent that caused this disease was discovered by (*) Robert Koch.  
Jean Antoine Villemin successfully transferred this disease from rabbits to cattle and back again to prove that it was infectious.  Seventy-seven infants died in Lubeck in 1930 when given a contaminated vaccine for this disease.  In a lawsuit, Albert Schatz alleged that his mentor, Selman Waksman, had stolen the credit for developing the first effective antibiotic against this disease.  The agent that caused this disease was discovered by (*) Robert Koch.  John Croghan's slaves built huts in Mammoth Cave to house people suffering from this disease.  Starting in 1873, people suffering from this disease flocked to Edward Livingston Trudeau's "cure cottages" in Saranac Lake, New York.  Death rates from this disease in developed nations plummeted after the development of isoniazid.  This "white plague" can be treated with streptomycin.  For 10 points, name this "Romantic" disease which wasted away the body of John Keats.
Jean Antoine Villemin successfully transferred this disease from rabbits to cattle and back again to prove that it was infectious.  
tuberculosis [or TB; or tubercle bacillus; or MTB; or phthisis; or consumption] 