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True, but the article says deadliest, not deadly. If my sister is the deadliest she's ever been, that doesn't mean she's going to kill me or even that she's eve

True, but the article says deadliest, not deadly. If my sister is the deadliest she's ever been, that doesn't mean she's going to kill me or even that she's even going to try. She might simply be more angry than ever before, and so the likelihood of killing me while still extremely low is higher than previous. Clickbaity, yes. Accurate, hard to say.

nocman 7y ago
I think it is fair to say that using the term "deadliest" in this context gives almost everyone the impression that this strain of the disease is indeed deadly (that is to say, that a fair number of people die from it). So if very few people die from this strain (and I don't know the answer to that, but the grandparent comment implies that very few do), then I'd say it is definitely not accurate.
- UnFleshedOne 7y ago
  Tb in general is surprisingly deadly actually. [0] "The World Health Organization estimates that 1.8 billion people—close to one quarter of the world's population—are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the bacteria that causes TB. Last year, 10 million fell ill from TB and 1.6 million died." ... "There is growing resistance to available drugs, which means the disease is becoming more deadly and difficult to treat. There were 558,000 cases of drug resistant TB last year." [0] - https://www.tballiance.org/why-new-tb-drugs/global-pandemic https://www.tballiance.org/why-new-tb-drugs/global-pandemic EDIT: I say surprisingly, because before recently I was under impression that tb, being bacterial infection, was solved long ago.
  - nocman 7y ago
    Yeah, I knew that TB overall was deadly - but the post I was referring to implied that this particular strain was not deadly. As I said, I don't know if the implication about this strain is correct, but if it is then referring to that strain as "the deadliest strain of Tuberculosis" would be inaccurate.
- Fomite 7y ago
  TB generally, and XDR TB specifically, are quite dangerous on a global scale. "By the end of 2016, XDR-TB has been reported by 123 WHO Member States. Information from countries with reliable data suggests that about 6.2% of MDR-TB cases worldwide have XDR-TB. In 2016, there were an estimated 490 000 new cases of MDR-TB worldwide. Only a small proportion of the XDR-TB cases among them are detected given that many low and lower middle-income countries still lack sufficient diagnostic capacity to test for resistance to second-line drugs and thus detect XDR-TB." In a study in South Africa, MDR-TB had a case fatality rate of about 9% in HIV- individuals, and 20% in HIV+ individuals.
  - nocman 7y ago
    Yeah, won't repeat it here, but see my response to "UnFleshedOne" in this thread.

nocman 7y ago

I think it is fair to say that using the term "deadliest" in this context gives almost everyone the impression that this strain of the disease is indeed deadly (that is to say, that a fair number of people die from it). So if very few people die from this strain (and I don't know the answer to that, but the grandparent comment implies that very few do), then I'd say it is definitely not accurate.

UnFleshedOne 7y ago
Tb in general is surprisingly deadly actually. [0] "The World Health Organization estimates that 1.8 billion people—close to one quarter of the world's population—are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the bacteria that causes TB. Last year, 10 million fell ill from TB and 1.6 million died." ... "There is growing resistance to available drugs, which means the disease is becoming more deadly and difficult to treat. There were 558,000 cases of drug resistant TB last year." [0] - https://www.tballiance.org/why-new-tb-drugs/global-pandemic https://www.tballiance.org/why-new-tb-drugs/global-pandemic EDIT: I say surprisingly, because before recently I was under impression that tb, being bacterial infection, was solved long ago.
- nocman 7y ago
  Yeah, I knew that TB overall was deadly - but the post I was referring to implied that this particular strain was not deadly. As I said, I don't know if the implication about this strain is correct, but if it is then referring to that strain as "the deadliest strain of Tuberculosis" would be inaccurate.
Fomite 7y ago
TB generally, and XDR TB specifically, are quite dangerous on a global scale. "By the end of 2016, XDR-TB has been reported by 123 WHO Member States. Information from countries with reliable data suggests that about 6.2% of MDR-TB cases worldwide have XDR-TB. In 2016, there were an estimated 490 000 new cases of MDR-TB worldwide. Only a small proportion of the XDR-TB cases among them are detected given that many low and lower middle-income countries still lack sufficient diagnostic capacity to test for resistance to second-line drugs and thus detect XDR-TB." In a study in South Africa, MDR-TB had a case fatality rate of about 9% in HIV- individuals, and 20% in HIV+ individuals.
- nocman 7y ago
  Yeah, won't repeat it here, but see my response to "UnFleshedOne" in this thread.