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:
Individuals who never have had chickenpox and have not received the vaccine for chickenpox are susceptible to shingles virus infection. Consequently, shingles disease is contagious by transmission of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) to these individuals.However, the shingles rash is not contagious in that a rash from one individual is unable to spread to another individual.Nevertheless, the disease of shingles can pass the virus from the active rash blisters directly to another individual who can become infected with the varicella-zoster virus.Shingles is, in this manner, contagious.Moreover, because varicella-zoster virus infection is commonly contagious in the form of chickenpox, and this infection can eventually lead to shingles development in some patients, it is fair to say that shingles is indirectly contagious by the spread of chickenpox.evertheless, the disease of shingles can pass the virus from the active rash blisters directly to another individual who can become infected with the varicella-zoster virus. Shingles is, in this manner, contagious.