Anonymous ID: bc0c26 Feb. 27, 2019, 4:26 p.m. No.5424259   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>Diversity is our strength…

 

Someone with active TB is likely to infect 10-15 others in just one year. TB is a disease of poverty. South Africa, with 781 cases/100k in 2016, and India, with its huge population, are hot spots.

 

Two growing areas of concern globally are Venezuela, with a recent 40 percent increase in TB cases in the capital, Caracas, last year, and North Korea (DPRK).

 

Last year, there was a scientifically inexplicable decision by the Global Fund to discontinue funding of a program that had been successful in fighting TB in DPRK.

 

https: //www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2018/09/26/news-from-the-uns-high-level-meeting-on-tuberculosis/