Tuberculosis is old—ancient even. The infectious bacterial disease that plagued Old Testament Israelites and took down pharaohs was eventually stunted by vaccinations, antibiotics, and public health measures like isolation—but it hasn’t been cured yet. More than a million people around the world still die from TB every year.

A new study shows that young children diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis are at an increased risk of subsequent wheezing, poor lung function, and reduced height and weight later in their childhood.

Children infected with cytomegalovirus—a type of common herpes virus—before they were 12 months old were more than three times as likely to develop tuberculosis disease in their childhood than babies who did not contract the virus in their first year.