On 24 March 2020,
World Tuberculosis Day, the World Hell Organization (WHO?) reminded
everyone that ‘actually, tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest infectious
disease in the world’.
In 1882, when the bacteria that causes
tuberculosis was first identified, TB was killing one out of every
seven people living in the United States and Europe.
above, diseased TB lungs
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Today,
in 2020, tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease,
according to the United Nations (UN).
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More than 10 million people
developed active tuberculosis disease in 2019.
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Around 1.5 million people died from
the bacterial infection in 2018 alone.
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Over 4,000 people die of
tuberculosis every day.
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Tuberculosis
is contagious. It is caused by bacteria that spread from person to person
through microscopic droplets released into the air. This can happen when
someone with the untreated, active form of tuberculosis coughs, speaks,
sneezes, spits, laughs or sings.
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The
continued spread of drug-resistant forms of TB threatens to reverse the
progress made against the epidemic over the last century.
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To date, no umbrella vaccine for TB
exists.
Ok, first off – everyone and their dog will argue
that you can’t compare that old TB-chestnut with the Chicom Virus(CV)…which
is far more contagious...which is why they had to destroy the airlines,
businesses, shops, restaurants, food plants and factories to stop the
spread.
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