TB spreads through the air and kills 1.5 million people a year.
The nasty bacteria tuberculous, which attacks the lungs and causes mucus, blood and vomiting, killed 1.5 million people in 2018. The disease kills millions of people per generation and infects millions of people a year.
Just a reminder on how more deadly disease are all around us and yet do not cause a government shut down of society.
95% of TB is in developing countries
The US has ~500 deaths a year. 70% of cases in the US are non-US born people.
There were 9000 cases of TB in the US in 2018 for the entire year.
COVID-19 surpassed that in 8 weeks.
COVID-19 deaths surpassed the number of deaths in an entire year for TB in 9 weeks.