Show Synopsis. From screenwriter/playwright Aaron Sorkin, who brought us The West Wing and The Social Network, comes a whirlwind history of the controversial invention of the television. Philo Farnsworth, a child prodigy raised on a farm in rural Idaho, has overcome adversity to create a groundbreaking device never before achieved.
1 MAC is not spread person to person like Mtb. 2  MAC is not contagious. 3  MAC lung disease seen in HIV negative (non-AIDS) patients is a chronic lung infection and early-on is often misdiagnosed as chronic bronchitis or recurrent pneumonia. The average age of patients with MAC lung disease in men is 55 years and 67 years in women. 2  Men are more likely to have cavitary MAC (holes in their lungs). 3  Women are more likely to have non-cavitary, nodular MAC. 4  Diagnosis of MAC lung disease usually requires:
Two of the most commonly used words in classifying disease are contagious disease and infectious disease. Let us differentiate one word from the other. Infectious disease is said to be the mother word of the terms such as contagious disease, communicable disease, and transmissible disease. Generally, infectious diseases are defined as the ability of a disease to enter a host, transmit the disease, and infect that person. An infectious disease can be sub-classified as contagious or non-contagious.