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Only in some countries. Somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the entire population of the world is infected with TB. Covid ~~only~~ made this worse in part because access to treatment became less consistent from 2020-2022.
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My point with this comment was that TB never "became history" outside of the imperial core. It has long posed the single highest healthcare burden from a single infectious disease despite being virtually unknown in the imperial core.
Covid temporarily unseated TB from its number 1 spot, but this wasn't because the TB burden was relieved and people were cured. The healthcare burden of covid has decreased (not because it went away) and now TB is number 1 again.
Wait, like 1/3 or so were already carriers of TB and because of inconsistent treatment the carriers are now experiencing symptoms?
Or... I'm not sure what your statement means
By "infected" I mean they have latent TB. Once you have TB, it never actually goes away, it just becomes "dormant" and will opportunistically become an active infection again later.
So you could say up to 1/3 are carriers, but I don't really like that term, as it implies they are carriers like they carry a certain gene, when with TB, your immune cells basically just clump around TB to quarantine it. If your immune system gets weak or that clump of cells gets disrupted, boom! You have active TB.
It takes an incredibly low amount of exposure to transmit TB to someone else too.