https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-20664-w https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s... Unhealthy people

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-20664-w https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s... Unhealthy people are more vulnerable to TB, absolutely. Infections in general are more prevalent in people who are underfed, or living in bad conditions. Other risk factors are exactly what you would expect: smoking, drinking, bad fitness level, and being young or old. TB rates are basically a function of 1. how immune compromised your population is, and 2. How much access to healthcare there is in the country (poverty, basically).