Preventing the Spread of Drug-Resistant TB

For those living in affluent countries, it’s easy to forget about tuberculosis, which seems like a disease of the Victorian eraคำพูดจาก เว็บตรงไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์. In the U.S., thanks to investments in public health and TB surveillance infrastructure, less than 600 people died from the disease in 2020. Compared to COVID-19, which caused 350,000 deaths that same year, it’s understandable why it’s not at the top of the U.S. public health agenda.

But if you zoom out and look at global public health, TB gets much more scary. It is the world’s most deadly infectious disease, killing approximately 1.5 million people per year, reclaiming the top spot…