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Modest Gains Against TB, World’s most infectious Disease

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Oct 19, 2019
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Although it seems almost forgotten in the developed world, a full 25 percent of the world’s population, about 2 billion people, are infected by tuberculosis bacteria – although most don’t get sick – and 1.8 million will die each year, making the disease the world’s leading infectious killer according to the US Centers for Disease Control.

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