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 populat

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.