Treatment success (i.e., patients with bacteriologically documented cure and those who completed treatment) was attained for 88% of new and 60% of retreatment TB patients. Among new, culture-positive pulmonary case-patients, 88% were either cured or completed treatment; this proportion declined to 81% for patients identified as smear-positive at diagnosis.
Publisher. A+E Networks. Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, âThis Land is Your Land.â. Born in Okemah, Oklahoma, in 1912, Guthrie lived and wrote of the real West, a place of hard-working people and harsh environments rather than romantic cowboys and explorers.
. This Land Is Your Land  is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in critical response to Irving Berlin 's  God Bless America , which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent.