Something like a third of the world population is estimated to be infected. More like 1 in 10 in the US. Two questions, why do you care and what is anybody go

Something like a third of the world population is estimated to be infected. More like 1 in 10 in the US. Two questions, why do you care and what is anybody going to do about it? (The answer to the second question is “almost certainly nothing”) There was a now discontinued (US) blood pressure medicine called guanabenz which studies were showing some effectiveness against the latent stage, but it’s no longer available.