Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine
- Written by: Justin Denholm, Associate Professor, Melbourne Health
from www.shutterstock.comBy some estimates, 2 billion people are now infected worldwide, and in 2019, around 1.4 million people died from it.
It’s a pandemic infection, spread through the air — but it’s not COVID. It’s tuberculosis (or TB). Yet we’re not in lockdown for it. And we’re not queuing up for a vaccine.
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