Summary This month’s Outbreak After Dark  is a holiday episode — and a heavy one. In A Consumption Christmas Carol , we retell Dickens’ ghost story through the real epidemic that haunted Victorian London: tuberculosis. Long before antibiotics, TB shaped daily life, art, poverty, and public health — romanticized in parlors, devastating in tenements, and deadly across every social class. Moving through past, present, and future, this episode blends gothic storytelling with infe