Apologies for the Elsevier link, but https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(17)30079-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanr

Apologies for the Elsevier link, but https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(17)30079-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... The report estimates around 40% mortality for MDR-TB and 60% mortality for XDR-TB. This compares with https://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/ https://www.who.int/gho/tb/epidemic/cases_deaths/en/ which gives about ~13% mortality for all TB cases world wide. So, I think the headline is accurate about that. However, we could cure (at least for some definition of "cure") XDR-TB before; it just took an incredible amount of time with some terrible drugs and some individuals still relapsed. Pa could be a game changer, though. I'll give it a "somewhat justifiably clickbaity" rating. ;)